Healing Actions
Small daily steps that move you forward
In grief, tasks that ordinarily would be automatic, like getting out of bed, carrying on a phone conversation, or cooking a meal, become burdensome, sometimes impossible. Grief can leave you feeling like you are a stranger in your own life, unable to function, stuck.
The solution is daily actions, sometimes very small ones, that prove to you that you are getting somewhere. It is enough to do one deliberate thing each day to establish normalcy, or novelty, to wake you up a little or soothe your senses. Such actions are evidence that you are finding your footing.
What follows is a list of actions others have found useful. They may provide a good place to start. The hope is that at the end of each day you will be able to point to several things that engaged you with life and moved you along. Daily actions are the building blocks of your comeback, and may help you discover that you are stronger and more resilient than you thought.
What sounds good to you today?
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