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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March 21, 2025 at 7:05 am
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@陳鈞鼎
March 21, 2025 at 7:07 am
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@trayjay6725
March 21, 2025 at 7:10 am
Blessings to anyone seeing this 🫶
@DatOneGuy901
March 21, 2025 at 7:11 am
I needed this
@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.
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March 21, 2025 at 7:15 am
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@陳鈞鼎
March 21, 2025 at 7:18 am
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@cigarmann
March 21, 2025 at 7:28 am
Her boss never said that….typical TED fraud….
@陳鈞鼎
March 21, 2025 at 7:36 am
無第二選擇
@raunaksahu2188
March 21, 2025 at 7:50 am
I gain a lot of information and i can use it for future or other too!!
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March 21, 2025 at 8:12 am
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@AdanSotelo1993
March 21, 2025 at 8:20 am
Whoever sees this an needs this I pray an hope you find the happiness UUU deserve
@marcvolpe8252
March 21, 2025 at 8:45 am
MEREDITH THE SUN IS SHINING AND SO ARE YOU ❤
@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
💚
@Luther_Luffeigh
March 21, 2025 at 9:08 am
I was mostly leaning how to be confident like her…great presenter
@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.
@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
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@sherececocco
March 22, 2025 at 1:22 pm
@jmsl_910 articulate
@sherececocco
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 am
What in place of stay positive, we asked questions?
@recreate124
March 21, 2025 at 10:37 am
Sadness, Sorrow, Pain, Suffering, Grief, Catastrophy, Enlightenment 😂
@joshuab79
March 21, 2025 at 11:01 am
People like this speaker are no longer needed….
@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.
@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.
@whoaskedforthisbs
March 21, 2025 at 7:18 pm
Ted read me.
@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🙏
@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
@OM-fm9ge
March 23, 2025 at 7:33 am
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@theronwatson3155
March 23, 2025 at 10:24 pm
This whole video is weird
@KaMiQa16
March 24, 2025 at 3:41 am
I was listening with my mouth wide open like she spoke to me directly