Brief info for grieving people

When you're overwhelmed with grief, you can't take in screeds of advice. In fact, straightforward information is the only kind that will stick.

The wonderful people at Manaaki Tāngata Victim Support understand this.

Screenshot of pamphlet on coping with grief

How they made this doc work

They refined everything they could say down to a few core messages on coping with grief.

Those messages could have been crammed onto one page but were spaced over two.

The sentences are short and the words are simple.

These choices help the messages stick.


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