{"id":19719,"date":"2021-02-12T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/?p=19719"},"modified":"2021-04-20T16:41:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:41:36","slug":"3-steps-that-helped-me-find-comfort-in-my-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/lifestyle\/3-steps-that-helped-me-find-comfort-in-my-grief\/1519719.html","title":{"rendered":"3 Steps that Helped Me Find Comfort in My Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wherever you are or whatever you are experiencing in your grief right now, there is a never-ending source of comfort available to you.\u00a0It might seem elusive right now, but it is true. \u00a0If you are in deep despair and seeing only dim hope, please continue reading.<\/p>\n

Grief Rocks Our World<\/strong><\/p>\n

After our son died, and the chasm of grief swallowed me into its dark and lonely pit I was lost.\u00a0 Emotionally, each waking day took me on a roller coaster I had not signed up for. \u00a0My body ached from head to toe.\u00a0 I could not focus, and my stomach was upset most of the time.\u00a0 Food did not taste good. The stability of my faith was shaken with the force of an 8.5 on the Richter scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity<\/em>; <\/em>it is<\/em> the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.\u201d Earl Grollman <\/em><\/p>\n

As Earl Grollman has just shared, I was grieving emotionally, physically, and spiritually.\u00a0 But there were a couple things I knew I needed to survive. That survival required the actions of my own choices in my grief. Possibly what I chose could support you to make some healthy grief choice.<\/p>\n

3 Grief Actions that Comfort<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. I needed to take care of myself so I could continue to be a mom to an adorable little girl, Dawson\u2019s younger sister, Joanna. The one thing I could do in this area of my broken-hearted existence was to get some outdoor exercise every day.\u00a0 I chose walking.\u00a0 And it always helped me feel better, if even for just a few moments of my day.\u00a0 Comforting? Yes!<\/li>\n
  2. I needed to take care of my emotions that ran riotous in my soul with the capacity to disable me.\u00a0 The one thing that made the difference for me was to put my pain on paper.\u00a0 I called it journaling then, but now I call it Putting Your Stuff On Paper.\u00a0 And it worked!\u00a0 I could feel some relief for my emotional pain, questions, and fears.\u00a0 Comforting? Yes!<\/li>\n
  3. I needed to wrestle with God.\u00a0 My spiritual world had toppled.\u00a0 Remnants of strong beliefs I once had, lay in heaps in my mind and heart.\u00a0 The one thing I knew was that God\u2019s love was not measured by my pain or circumstances.\u00a0 His love was everlasting and real even in my pain.\u00a0 When I encountered His promise to heal my broken heart, (Psalms 147:3) I took him up on it.\u00a0 I then began discovering that for every part of my grief journey, God already had shown up with comfort that came from Scripture!\u00a0\u00a0 Comforting?\u00a0 Absolutely!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Choosing to Take Action<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Grieving is the action we take for the grief we cannot escape.\u00a0 If I can leave you with anything, please consider taking action in your grief.\u00a0 Only you can grieve your loss.\u00a0 No one else can do it for you.\u00a0 Take care of your physical needs, attend to your emotions, and lean into a trusting relationship with the One who knows how to heal your broken heart.<\/p>\n

    You too can be supported in your grief.\u00a0 You too can function, learn that pain is not your enemy, discover healthy ways to express your sorrow, anger, fear, and loneliness.\u00a0 You do not need to grieve alone.\u00a0 By taking a simple step, you can learn about <\/span>Grief, You Have Options<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 This is a brand-new online video series that guides grieving people through their loss with healthy grief options.\u00a0 To see for yourself, click <\/span>this link<\/span><\/a> to sample 2 modules along with the accompanying handouts.\u00a0 You don\u2019t not need to grieve alone. You can be supported and learn how to grieve in a healthy way.\u00a0 You can start waking up in your tomorrows with hope for healing.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a9Karen Nicola 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wherever you are or whatever you are experiencing in your grief right now, there is a never-ending source of comfort available to you.\u00a0It might seem elusive right now, but it is true. \u00a0If you are in deep despair and seeing only dim hope, please continue reading. Grief Rocks Our World After our son died, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,561,8],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1340,2648,2652,2650,2653,2647,2646,2658,2660,2661,760,2659,919,2663,2662,2651,2649,700,1676,1604],"class_list":["post-19719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emotional-health","category-lifestyle","category-mindfulness","category-spiritual-health","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"views":881,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19997,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719\/revisions\/19997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}