Ring Theory, Pandemic Edition: Comfort In, Dump Out, Switch.

Usually, with trauma and grief, there’s a single person or a couple or one family who is at the core of what’s happened. I love psychologist Susan Silk’s theory on how to be most helpful to the person(s) suffering: she says you should think of the afflicted — say the person with the illness or the individual who has lost a partner — in the center of a very small circle. Then you draw a…