10/06/2026
Have you ever felt like your sadness was making someone else uncomfortable?
Or on the flip side, have you ever felt uncomfortable with someone else’s sadness or grief?
I think most of us could probably answer 🙋🏼♀️ to either of those questions.
We don’t always know what to do with sadness, and because of that there can be a knee jerk reaction to expect people to move away from it. 🏃🏻
Or if you’re the one carrying it -to hide it altogether. 🫣
This might look like a push for positivity.
🗣️ “Be grateful for the time you had with them.”
🗣️ “Focus on the good.”
🗣️ “We are going to be positive about this!”
Most of the time these are well intentioned.
But asking someone navigating loss to be positive doesn’t shunt them into healing.
It can do the opposite by suggesting sadness is not ok.
Sadness is one of the ways we register that something mattered, something was lost and now something has changed.
We don’t need to hurry to turn sadness into something else.
We can create space to feel it, to honor it.
Because sadness is not negativity.
It is a natural, healthy response to loss.❤️🩹
What are some ways you could support someone who expresses their sadness to you? 😌
Drop your suggestions in the comments below ⬇️
