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How to Handle Grief at Work and Beyond | Meredith Wilson Parfet | TED

What happens when personal grief collides with your professional life? Drawing on her experience as the CEO of a crisis management firm and a hospice chaplain, Meredith Wilson Parfet breaks down the reality of grief — at work and beyond — and shares practical tools for navigating chaos, without toxic positivity. (Recorded at TEDNext 2024…

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What happens when personal grief collides with your professional life? Drawing on her experience as the CEO of a crisis management firm and a hospice chaplain, Meredith Wilson Parfet breaks down the reality of grief — at work and beyond — and shares practical tools for navigating chaos, without toxic positivity. (Recorded at TEDNext 2024 on October 23, 2024)

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36 Comments

  1. @陳鈞鼎

    March 21, 2025 at 7:05 am

    Wellcome to Taiwan and we need yoy

  2. @陳鈞鼎

    March 21, 2025 at 7:07 am

    台灣不要像為克蘭

  3. @trayjay6725

    March 21, 2025 at 7:10 am

    Blessings to anyone seeing this 🫶

  4. @DatOneGuy901

    March 21, 2025 at 7:11 am

    I needed this

  5. @sooma-ai

    March 21, 2025 at 7:11 am

    Meredith Wilson Parfet discusses handling grief at work and beyond, sharing practical tools for navigating crisis without toxic positivity. She emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, defining the crisis, identifying tradeoffs, setting priorities, and focusing on the next right action.

  6. @JeevanPardhan-s2q

    March 21, 2025 at 7:15 am

    I am from india

  7. @陳鈞鼎

    March 21, 2025 at 7:18 am

    台灣是我們的國家

  8. @cigarmann

    March 21, 2025 at 7:28 am

    Her boss never said that….typical TED fraud….

  9. @陳鈞鼎

    March 21, 2025 at 7:36 am

    無第二選擇

  10. @raunaksahu2188

    March 21, 2025 at 7:50 am

    I gain a lot of information and i can use it for future or other too!!

  11. @dazdazduadoia

    March 21, 2025 at 8:12 am

    ❤❤❤❤

  12. @AdanSotelo1993

    March 21, 2025 at 8:20 am

    Whoever sees this an needs this I pray an hope you find the happiness UUU deserve

  13. @marcvolpe8252

    March 21, 2025 at 8:45 am

    MEREDITH THE SUN IS SHINING AND SO ARE YOU ❤

  14. @kimberlyf.4130

    March 21, 2025 at 8:50 am

    My husband of 10 years died a week before Thanksgiving in 2023. We have two kids and a perfect, happy marriage. Losing David destroyed me. But I decided to keep going. The best advice I can give you is to aim up. Keep aiming up, keep trying to be a good person and live the best life you can. Fake it til you make it, eventually you will. It does get better, the pain never goes away but you learn to live and work around it. The sun may not shine as bright ever again, but it WILL shine again.

    • @recreate124

      March 21, 2025 at 10:34 am

      ❤❤❤

    • @bluehelianthusdreams

      March 21, 2025 at 8:54 pm

      🫶🌻🙏 Thank you for sharing, Kimberly.

    • @どもみし

      March 22, 2025 at 1:15 am

      💚

  15. @Luther_Luffeigh

    March 21, 2025 at 9:08 am

    I was mostly leaning how to be confident like her…great presenter

  16. @spindoctor6385

    March 21, 2025 at 9:10 am

    Pop culture tella ua to be resilient and gritty?
    What a load of rubbish, schools, big companies and government joba offer “mental health” days amd safe spaces and tell you that you are a victim if somebody hurta youe feelings.

  17. @sherececocco

    March 21, 2025 at 9:21 am

    Grief and depression have the same symptoms

    • @jmsl_910

      March 21, 2025 at 9:31 am

      there is over lap in many but not all of the symptoms. check the DSM- the mental health diagnosis.

      typically after more than three months of intense grieving , that’s not improving, a dr would offer prescribing a low/dose of an anti-depressant.

    • @sherececocco

      March 22, 2025 at 12:48 am

      @jmsl_910  I don’t DSM. Uninteresting people making up disorders in others to help themselves feel better makes my skin itchy. 🙃

    • @sherececocco

      March 22, 2025 at 12:50 am

      @jmsl_910  did you know Maslow did intend for his information to be put in a pyramid from. Spells.

    • @jmsl_910

      March 22, 2025 at 8:10 am

      @@sherececocco bot

    • @sherececocco

      March 22, 2025 at 1:22 pm

      @jmsl_910  articulate

  18. @sherececocco

    March 21, 2025 at 9:23 am

    What in place of stay positive, we asked questions?

  19. @recreate124

    March 21, 2025 at 10:37 am

    Sadness, Sorrow, Pain, Suffering, Grief, Catastrophy, Enlightenment 😂

  20. @joshuab79

    March 21, 2025 at 11:01 am

    People like this speaker are no longer needed….

  21. @cookingwater234

    March 21, 2025 at 3:09 pm

    I was going through alot of grief at work and never reported the issues in time from the people causing it. Costed me the job and many mental health breakdowns. Dont be around toxic people.

  22. @dentaldiscjockey8405

    March 21, 2025 at 4:38 pm

    Well well, I want to go on a ten year leave from life. That’s what I genuinely desire.

  23. @whoaskedforthisbs

    March 21, 2025 at 7:18 pm

    Ted read me.

  24. @bluehelianthusdreams

    March 21, 2025 at 8:51 pm

    ✨A path from grief to growth✨I currently have a grief brain and these were great reminders/tips. Thank you TED for inviting Meredith. Thank you Meredith for your wisdom🙏

  25. @aimzzz9382

    March 22, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    You spoke so well, you’re so brave ! We need to talk about grief more as a society I think

  26. @OM-fm9ge

    March 23, 2025 at 7:33 am

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  27. @theronwatson3155

    March 23, 2025 at 10:24 pm

    This whole video is weird

  28. @KaMiQa16

    March 24, 2025 at 3:41 am

    I was listening with my mouth wide open like she spoke to me directly

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