Seven Practical Steps to Recovery and Healing
1. First, take care of yourself!
Eat properly, get adequate sleep, stay busy, and regain some sense of normalcy.
2. Realize you are not alone; others have been down this road before.
Read grief literature to see how others have survived
3. Remember the happy times.
Healing is the slow process of turning the pain into positives.
4. Find a support group.
Someone you can lean on and who will listen to you
5. Revisit your previous faith or philosophy of life.
You have probably experience anger and wondered “Why?” Try to reconnect with your former values of life.
6. Drive yourself to a time of transition.
It takes courage to keep going. Let it be a time of growing, learning, and changing.
7. Make the choice to try to get better.
Only you can make the choice between bitter or better! Over the long-term you will still experience some pain. But, grief will either make you grow or it will paralyze you.
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