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How to Deal With Grief: 5 Important Tips to Persevere

By Operation Meditation

Have you suffered a tragic loss and don’t know how to cope? Are you looking for ways to help get you through this painful time and start to live life again?

Loss, and the grief associated with it, is a major event in a person’s life. Even if you expect it, it doesn’t necessarily make it easy to pick up where you left off and go about your life.

But, you don’t have to live in sadness and grief forever. Nor should you. Here are 5 things you can do that will start you on the path of recovery and finding happiness again:

Create a Journal

Sometimes it helps to get it all out. Lay all your feelings on the table and then start to sort through them. Journaling is a great way to do this.

When talking to family and friends, you can’t always be yourself. You may limit what you say because you know they may respond by telling you that you shouldn’t feel that way or you just don’t want to upset them.

Writing down your thoughts, feelings and fears is a way to remove them from your body. You get them out to an objective source that isn’t going to judge you or make you feel stupid.

Meditate

Meditation is a great way to help you deal with whatever emotions you’re feeling. When you sit in silence and just be, you learn a lot about yourself which can help you start to process the grief and move forward, making your life livable again.

Some people are afraid of the silence and do their best to distract themselves with TV, internet or just always being busy. To truly begin to heal though, eventually you have to face the grief. The sooner you start, the sooner you’ll feel better.

See a Counselor

There’s nothing wrong with going to a professional for help. They’re an objective third party who may be able to see things that you can’t because you’re too emotionally involved. While family and friends may try to help, they don’t always know the best ways.

Counselors, or therapists, have had years of education and experience in the field and can share with you tips and tricks that they’ve found or seen others use that helped relieve the grief. There may be something that can help you, but you’re just completely unaware of it.

Join a Support Group

Sometimes it helps to not feel alone in your grief. If someone tries to console you, but they’ve never been through what you’re experiencing, it doesn’t always matter how good their intentions are. No one understands like someone who has walked in your shoes.

Joining a group of people who suffered a loss similar to yours can help you heal. Not only do you have a common bond, but they can share what they’ve done to cope.

Find a Constructive Outlet for Your Feelings

Some people find comfort or release by doing something constructive, or creative, with their grief. Maybe you like to write poetry or paint pictures and that would help ease the pain. Or, perhaps once you feel up to it, you can help others in your shoes.

Some people turn to substances like drugs and alcohol to serve as an outlet. This is dangerous and will not help you through the grief process. Actually, it makes it worse and compounds the problem.

Grief has a way of robbing you of your life if you let it. Don’t let it. Try these five things and start to regain your life.

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