Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Most helpful resource

I had a lovely Zoom chat today with a peer who was looking for grief related resources for her team. Professionally, as fundraisers, we interact with a LOT of people, and we agreed that we are so incredibly privileged that people invite us into the intimacy of their lives when thinking about their estate plans.

And right now, the word on the street is that COVID-19 has a lot of people thinking about their estate plans. Now- more than ever- our profession needs to ensure that we don't bring our own baggage into that conversation.

COVID-19 is scary and overwhelming for all of us. Peers, colleagues, & friends: now is the time to face the facts and to put it crudely, deal with our own shit.

Death is real, and cannot be ignored. It is sadly more relevant in the context of the current pandemic: we need to understand how to interact with grief, live with grief, face grief.

I'm so pleased that I can share my most favourite resource here, something I hope will be of help to you as well. Check out Megan Devine - @refugeingrief on Twitter. Megan's book, It's OK That You're NOT OK, has given me so many helpful insights and I refer to it often.


Stay well, stay safe.



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