Share your sorrow and talk about your loss with trusted friends, family or a trained professional.
- Stay active as best you can by continuing to be involved in activities that are important, helpful or enjoyable.
- Maintain your routine. This helps you to focus on things in addition to your grief.
- Accept and acknowledge your feelings. Grief can produce many emotions or stages in addition to sorrow. Nurture yourself.
- Get adequate sleep, eat healthily, exercise, let yourself enjoy fun activities.
- Avoid taking on more stress in your life or agreeing to challenging projects until you are feeling stronger.
- Be forgiving of yourself and others. No one can be everything to everyone all the time.
- Help someone else. It helps you feel useful and needed.
- Respect your own grief process and timetable. There is no one right way to grieve and no specific time to resolve it. It's different for everyone.
- Be willing to ask for help. Seeking psychological and/or spiritual assistance when needed is a sign of health, maturity, independence and wisdom.