Coping Skills for Surviving Divorce & Separation
filed in Grieving Process on Oct 16, 2006
Divorce or a breakup causes a loss in every area of a person life: identify, family, social, health and finances. This is the best time to “gather your forces” and give yourself what you need in order to fully heal.
Healthy Coping Skills
l. Understand that this is a process. Recovery will take as long as it takes. Do not compare yourself to your partner.
2. Take one step and one day at a time.
3. Be aware of the emotinal stages of grief (shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance). You will go back and forth within these stages.
4. Do not abandon yourself. Be with your feelings. Write about them.
5. Make a list of your strengths, your good attributes and past accomplishments.
6.Reach out for help. Seek professional help and friends who can listen in a loving nonjudgemental manner. You need unconditional acceptance.
7. Make only necessary decisions and set small realistic goals.
8. Be patient with yourself and praise yourself for all your efforts.
9.At the end of the day give thanks for the good that is present in your life.
I agree!
Posted by: Steve Leedom on November 7, 2006 11:26 AM