5 Steps to Breaking Bad News

Scarlett Jess Perrodin
7 min readDec 2, 2022

How to break life altering news and reassemble the aftermath

Photo by Maurice Smeets on Unsplash

“You have cancer.” Those three brief words, that seem to bear the weight of the world, is one type of bad news I have been in the position to deliver.

The action packed phrase “breaking bad news” uses the insightful verb “breaking” because bad news causes a sudden fragmentation of an individual’s perception of their present and…

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Scarlett Jess Perrodin

Mental health advocate, abuse escape artist, maternal aura, and comic. Personal stories. Some hints of humor. A diamond in the rough is still a diamond.