Blythe is known for bringing nuance to topics that are often reduced to simple advice. She believes normal human suffering is frequently overpathologized, that empathy is not the same as effectiveness, and that insight alone does no create change unless behavior changes too. Her work also examines what another person's pain activates in us - fixing, withdrawing, over helping, avoidance, resentment or making someone else's experience about your own discomfort.
Blythe Landry, LCSW, M.Ed., is a grief, trauma and relationship therapist and coach with 27 years of experience. She is the founder of GRIEF TO PURPOSE and author of Trauma Intelligence: The Art of Helping in a World Filled with Pain. Her expertise includes grief and bereavement, family estrangement, difficult relationships, tr...