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Talk
Out Your Grief & You'll Start to Heal |
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Whether
a death, break-up or tragedy like September 11th causes it,
a devastating loss creates an emotional abscess that needs
to be drained completely before it can begin to heal. |
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To clean this wound to your heart and soul, you need to feel and
express, then pause and feel and express again, until you have
drained the pus completely.
This will not be easy. Once you begin to grieve a certain
tragedy, you risk opening the floodgates to unfelt, unexpressed
and unhealed inner angst from other traumatic events in your
life.
Yet sharing your feelings with people who can relate based on
their own similar experiences can be extremely valuable during
the recovery process. This explains why women with breast cancer
are so helped by "Reach to Recovery" groups, and why the group
experience is the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous recovery
programs.
To open the door to your own process of emotional excavation,
healing and rebuilding, begin to talk in great detail with
others about what you saw and heard, thought and felt, as you
watched drama unfold on Tuesday, September 11.
Also use the following 10 signposts
as a guide through the Valley of this Shadow of Death:
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1. Cry
2. Scream
3. Shriek
4. Reach out to others
5. Reach into yourself
6. Sob
7. Take a deep breath
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8. Whimper
9. Rest
10. Repeat the above as often as needed until you know that
you'll make it through. |
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