When you understand why you feel the way you do, you worry less about your reactions to your loss. You focus more on the next steps along your healing path. Only you can truly figure this out. This post gives you a practice for making sense of your grief.
You have to feel grief to heal it. Yet the pain can be so intense, you want to get it over with fast. But there’s no quick way through grief. Instead, you have to gradually build your tolerance to it. That way, you can do the work of adapting to loss. That’s where grief dosing comes in.
Do the holidays make you feel lonely? You aren’t alone. Sixty-six percent of us suffer from holiday loneliness. And we need to take our loneliness seriously. Fortunately, loneliness first aid is pretty simple: connect with other human beings. Here are some ideas for curing your holiday loneliness.
Worrying over your own reaction to a loved one’s death is a major source of suffering in bereavement. Compassionate self-talk eases your mind so you can focus on soothing self-care.
Grief over a pet’s death is real. And it’s really hard. That’s because the amount of grief we feel is correlated with the degree of attachment we have to our loved one. Our relationship with companion animals is set up to create a powerful bond. This post describes how to move through the pain of losing a pet.
The best way to face any anxiety is to determine what you can control about an uncontrollable future and make a plan. You can’t control the fact that you’ll die. But you can choose how to live, and you can influence the legacy you leave. Having a plan for those two things will go a long way in easing death anxiety.