Free practical-support tool
Practical Support Planner After a Loss
“Let me know if you need anything” is kind, but it asks a grieving person to invent and organize the help. Build a concrete offer you can genuinely carry out instead.
Specific, low-pressure wording
Your offers
Choose a task and timing, then generate three versions you can copy and edit.
Why specificity matters
Help should reduce decisions, not add another one
Bereavement organizations such as Cruse recommend making offers of practical help specific. A bounded offer—what you can do, roughly when, and permission to say no—requires less planning from the grieving person than a broad promise.
A useful pattern
I can [specific task] [specific time]. If that would help, I’ll arrange the details; if not, no pressure at all.