Why grief platitudes don’t help — and what does
Well-meaning words can unintentionally deepen isolation in grief. Mathew Frease explores why platitudes fail and how presence and listening offer something more faithful.
The Rev. Dr. Mathew Frease is the campus minister at UKirk Tallahassee. In addition to being a Presbyterian minister, he is a trained pastoral psychotherapist and is licensed as a marriage and family therapist. Matt and his spouse, Ame, have two boys and two dogs and live in Tallahassee, Florida.
Well-meaning words can unintentionally deepen isolation in grief. Mathew Frease explores why platitudes fail and how presence and listening offer something more faithful.
Mathew Frease frames empathy as a radical, Christ-centered practice that connects people, transforms relationships, and expands our capacity for justice across difference.
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