Find Support: You need warmth and caring throughout. Friends and relatives can help. Let them.
Accept Your Grief: It is a natural healing process. Roll with its tides.
Look for Models: Grief is painful. It helps to know that others have coped with it. Books and support groups can help.
Learn About Grief: Understanding grief can make it safer and more predictable. It gives hope.
Express It: Without a release, grief can leave you frozen and stoic. Journal writing, poetry, drawing, physical activity, music, as well as talking, are ways to let it out. You may need to do it again and again … and again.
Accept Your Feeling: They may be very intense. Looking at them can help you learn about yourself and the meaning of your loss.
Pace Yourself: Grief takes energy. A slower pace with times of diversion and mild exercise will aid the healing process. Be sure to eat properly.
Trust Yourself: Friend’s advice often helps, but you know your needs best.
Don’t Be Afraid to Have Fun: Laughter is good medicine. Children and pets can help. SMILE.
Maintain Hope: Faith is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to go on when fear is present. Healing will come eventually.