![]() ![]() There’s the book itself as well as the creation of a nonprofit, Option B, to offer support groups for those facing adversity (think Lean In circles, of which there are 30,000, to process the shit that life throws at you). Sandberg chose meaning, and she also chose to pay it forward by sharing how she did it. She called her best friend and screamed into the phone: “Tell me my kids will be ok!” Through the terror of it all, she was beset by fear for her kids. She found him on the floor, and in a flash her life became divided in two: before and after. Sandberg tragically lost her husband, Dave Goldberg, while they were celebrating a friend’s birthday at a resort in Mexico: he went to the gym, had a cardiac arrhythmia, and died. Sheryl Sandberg offers some good ideas in Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy. But now he was gone. How would we help them not just survive his death, but somehow emerge with hope, which was in such shockingly short supply at the time? ![]() ![]() He wanted to help his girls lead bright, purposeful lives. What we needed, immediately, was assurance that my brother’s children would not drown in sadness and rage. We were desperate for guidance but also paralyzed by intersecting layers of grief: anger over how much he had suffered fear for the gaping, irreversible, hole he had left and anxiety over how to move forward, even if just to get groceries. ![]()
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