Three baby steps to begin to Grieve!
- One must admit they are sad and are grieving something. How do you know what that is, if you can not put your finger on it? Take the grief loss inventory in my latest book. 132 boxes you can check from to help you know what it is you are hurting from. The inventory is in the first chapter of the book to help you process your grief. Leading You Through the Valley ; A Personalized Grief-Loss Coaching book
Three baby steps to begin to Grieve!
2. After you identify what you are grieving. It is crucial you decide you want to work through the loss at all cost. As to love cost, and to want to get to the other side or through the valley, one must be willing to do the grief work. It takes work!! Do you want to get through your loss or betrayal to get more of what God has for you?
I did. I do. And now I help others walk through their grief loss journey, Email! to chat about a one on one private coaching plan. Options and more coaching plans here. Coaching!
Three baby steps to begin to Grieve!
So now you have identified what you are grieving.
And you also desire to get through it.
The third baby step is this:
3. Begin to pour the pain out in a safe way. And there are tools and techniques I share to help you do that. But, I will share five suggestions here and in my book, I conclude most chapters with a how to and a how to help others.
- Find someone you trust in and that you can speak to, perhaps a counselor, a Pastor, a friend, someone you can confide in or try coaching with me.
- Throw out stuff, yes, clean out kitchen drawers, do something productive yet you are purging something. Try to throw out something once a day. Paper piles work nicely for this.
- Write out three pages of how you feel daily.
- Create something: make cookies, paint a room, work in the garden, just create.
- Recognize it will take you time to wade through your loss. So give yourself permission or grace space.
What will you try first?
Three baby steps to begin to Grieve!
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