Grief & Loss

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Grief As A Healer

Some Suggestions

Grief can heal the wounds we feel from the losses in our lives. During those times of personal crisis, loving support is always helpful.

• Live each day to the maximum, one day at a time.
• Allow yourself to rest and recuperate without becoming sloppy.
• Do something physical. Keep active.
• Be daring. Do those things you have always wanted to do.
• Don’t be surprised if you do something “crazy.”
• The work of grieving is in reviewing the memories and feelings and things associated with the loss. This is difficult, and it needs to be done.
• Cry, cry and cry some more.
• Get rid of the stuff that reminds you of your loss.
• Rebuild your possessions on what supports your new life.
• Allow yourself the freedom to move to a new space.
• Keep a personal journal of your feelings and whatever else you are going through in your grief. The journal becomes a way to externalize your feelings and becomes a mirror of your progress.
• Find and use a support group that truly supports your life changes.
• Take your time in getting into a new relationship. Savor each new person for who she/he is. Move from a position of strength, not weakness.
• Use the joy, power and love you gain from utilizing your grief as a means for healing, as the foundation on which to build your new life.
• Fill that emptiness you feel with love – love for life, love for God, love for self, love for others.
• Enjoy yourself because if you don’t, who can?
• Remember that what you are feeling as grief is all yours. It is within you. It wants to leave. Let it.

Why Her Why Now, by Lon Elmer

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