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What to Do When Your Friend Is Not OK
A no-fluff checklist with words to use, practical offers, and a few next moves for today.
Get the free guideBetter friends. Brighter days.
How to help your besties when they're absolutely not OK.
Clear words and practical next steps for showing up when someone you love is dealing with the kind of hard thing nobody knows how to text about.
You don't have to know how to fix it. You just need to know how to show up.
Hard seasons are easier together.
The Show Up Well way
Useful, not performative.
Specific help beats vague offers.
Turn “let me know if you need anything” into dinner, school pickup, appointment notes, paperwork, or the next check-in.
Agency always matters.
Support without rescuing, diagnosing, pressuring, or quietly making somebody else's crisis about you.
Practical support, ready when you need it
What helps when your brain goes blank.
Scripts for the text you're scared to send. Plans for the help you can actually give. A gentle nudge to stay in it after the first wave passes.
The complete digital toolkit
The Crisis Friend Toolkit
Scripts, situation guides, practical-help menus, appointment notes, coordination templates, boundaries, and long-haul support planning.
- Words for hard moments
- Help that does not create more work
- A plan for the long haul
Good friends tell good friends
Be the friend who brings dinner—and remembers next month.
Get practical language and a clear next step for the hard situation nobody handed you a manual for.