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Nov 2022
40m 58s

Dealing with Grief While Dealing with Wo...

Morra Aarons-Mele
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Grief is something we’ll all experience in our adult lives, and we all experience it differently. But it’s not something the modern workplace is really built to deal with well. How do we move beyond our current system -- which often involves clear cut bereavement days but not much else?  Rebecca Soffer is the author of The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactiv ... Show More
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