How do you support someone going through something you've never experienced yourself?

You want to be there — you really do — but you're terrified of saying the wrong thing, so sometimes you say nothing at all, and that ends up being worse.

Nobody teaches us how to sit with someone else's pain without trying to fix it, minimize it, or make it about ourselves.

Have you ever not known how to show up for someone who needed you — and what do you wish you had done differently?