You may feel a sense of prolonged grief for your pre-pandemic life.
Here, a grief counselor shares five tips for how to cope with this living loss.
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That was five months ago, though.
But, the prolonged grief felt for pre-pandemic life requires navigating a complicated tangle of emotions, nonetheless.
Dont deny that you miss your pre-pandemic life.
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Acknowledge that your are grieving and it is a legitimate response to the stressful events happening in the world.
Validate your losses
Take inventory of your losses and seek to understand their dimensions.
By validating the living losses, we can experience a sense of relief.
Allow your grief to be instructive and guide you toward a path of healing.
What are you feeling?
Sadness, fear, hurt, frustration?
Be curious, and consider breaking out a pen and paper to keep track.
See if you’re able to validate your losses and name them, Brennan says.
By validating the living losses, we can experience a sense of relief.
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Allow your grief to be instructive and guide you toward a path of healing.
These practices honor what has been lost and symbolically mark an ending for those who remain.
And the practices can still exist to help cope with living losses and feelings prolonged grief.
Find ways to create personal rituals to help give meaning to your pandemic losses, says Brennan.
Begin to work on creating realistic expectations by shifting your mind-set by reimagining the world.
Maybe you canembrace RV lifeover jet-settingwhich is a different adventure in itself.
But, you’re able to start rebuilding with a grounding mantra.
Create a phrase or affirmation you could say to help you reconnect to purpose and meaning, Brennan says.
And with new beginnings come hope.
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