![]() Give yourself permission to feel how you feel. Talk and work through your feelings and thoughts. Make taking care of yourself, in all areas of your life, a priority. Give yourself grace when you aren’t your best. Good friends and family will listen.Īnd, equally important: be kind to yourself. And if the people in your life don’t understand this, explain it to them. When the people in your life understand that crying is normal and frustration is okay, as long as it comes out in appropriate ways, you don’t feel like you have to hide yourself while also coming apart at the seams. Stifling your feelings will only make them erupt at the worst possible time and in the worst possible way.Īnd surround yourself with people who will 1) check in on you and 2) give you space and grace to feel what you feel. Punch a pillow or find another (appropriate) outlet for your anger. Let yourself feel sad or angry or confused. What I’ve found is that the only way to get through it is to let yourself go through it. ![]() I’ve lost a lot of people in the last year. ![]() So, so, so much has happened in the 7 months since then. About how I had given myself permission to post recipes when I felt able, to not be hard on myself when I was inconsistent, to not define myself by my productivity, to let myself grieve. And what I wrote was a little blurb about grief. Apparently, I didn’t open it again for about a month. In fact, I started the post just before I found out my brother had passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. I originally wrote this recipe in September. ![]()
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