Bear in mind that there is no rapid fix to dealing with grief after you have lost someone special in your life.
And, you're going to be feeling a range of emotions - guilt, angry, sadness, denial, fearful, depressed, numbness, grief, etc.
However, with the tips below, maybe you can get your life back on track.
7 Tips To Help You Through The Healing Process After A Loved One's Death 1 - Recognize and Accept Your Grief One of the most important things to remember about moving past grief is to accept it.
If you fail to do this, your wounds may never fully heal.
When you accept how you feel and the loss, you're recognizing the grief and can move on toward acceptance of the loss and healing from it.
2 -Mourn The Loss (It Really Is Okay To Cry and Get Mad) It's okay to be upset and cry from the pain you feel.
Mourning is how you express your grief, emptiness and sadness.
You might hold a funeral/memorial service, wear black and have a somber demeanor for a time.
These things are all natural and help with the healing process after you have suffered loss.
3 - Avoid Making Huge Decisions While You Grief When it comes to your decision making processes, grief can cloud your judgment.
Do not make huge decisions while you are grieving, as you could end up regretting it later.
If you do decide to make decisions, be sure to ask for the advice of your friends and family before doing anything.
4 - Enlist The Support Of Your Loved Ones While it's fine to spend time alone grieving, you shouldn't always do it.
You need the help of someone in your life to get you through this rough time and help you to begin healing.
Why not get the assistance from another person who is experiencing the same grief that you are? When there are two of you grieving for the loss, you can use each other as a soundboard and cry on one anothers' shoulders.
5 - Be Sure You Are Taken Care Of Believe it or not, grief will take up a good chunk of your energy.
And, to move past the grief, you need eat right, exercise and get plenty of sleep.
If you believe the grief isn't the reason for your symptoms, consider seeing your doctor to get a medical checkup.
This will rule anything else out.
6 - Seek Professional Help (Especially When You Feel Extremely Depressed) Depression is a serious condition and often occurs after the death of a loved one.
If you've talked with your friends and family or if you're abusing alcohol or drugs, you need the assistance of a therapist to help you overcome this.
Grief can be difficult to overcome and you might feel alone.
However, you don't have to be.
If you don't have a support system, it's best to seek out medical assistance to deal with your grief.
7 - Avoid Drugs and Alcohol Too many times, people will pick up a bottle of alcohol or do drugs to get them through their pain.
This is the worst thing you can do for yourself.
After all, the grief is still going to be there after you quit doing the drugs and alcohol.
On top of that, your life can spiral out of control with these things.
Again, seek out help if you find yourself drinking or doing drugs on a regular basis.
Time does heal all things - your pain and emotions will decrease as more time passes.
It doesn't mean you have forgotten or that you are betraying their memory.
It only means you've accepted the fact that they are no longer with you and that this is now your new "normal" life.
How long will it take to get past grief? The reality is...
you may never get over it! You just learn to live with it.
You just need to remember to live your life...
like they would want you to - be happy, be kind and, most of all, smile about the memories you have with them!