Different ways to cope with grief

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Different ways to cope with grief

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• When someone who is close to your heart dies, it
  is normal for you to grieve over your loss. But
  grieving is not only limited to the demise of a
  loved one. There are many different reasons why a
  person feels grief. But no matter the reason why
  a person feels grief, it is best to deal with it
  in a healthy way. Here are a few healthy ways to
  deal with and cope with grief.
• Losing someone you love dearly is really hard and
  disheartening. When someone who is close to your
  heart like your spouse, parents, family member,
  children, friends, and colleague dies, it is
  normal for you to grieve over your loss. But
  grieving is not only limited to the demise of a
  loved one.

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• There are many different reasons why a person
  feels grief. It can be a loss of career, a
  miscarriage, loss of wealth or possession or
  financial stability, relationship break up or
  divorce, failure, letting go of something
  important to you like your ultimate dream, moving
  to a new home, and serious illness or health
  problems, among others.
• No matter the reason why a person feels grief, it
  is best to deal with it in a healthy way. You
  need to find different ways to cope with the
  torment, pick up the broken pieces of yourself,
  pull yourself up, and move on before it is too
  late. Here are a few healthy ways to deal with
  and cope up with grief.

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• Seek help from a professional counsellor that
  offers counselling services in Ottawa
• Join an existing or build your own solid support
  group
• Get spiritual support
• Exercise and eat healthy foods
• Get yourself a new hobby
• Listen to good music
• Join some helpful and fun social activities
• Talk to or connect with your friends and family
• Divert your focus by engaging on things you
  really enjoy doing
• Engage in sports or other physical or mental
  activities
• Take time to rest, unwind, and relax

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Seek spiritual support
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• Aside from yourself, there is no other person who
  can help you with your grief but God. No matter
  what path you take towards coping with the pain,
  seeking spiritual support from the Divine Creator
  is still the best thing you can do for fast
  recovery. In God, everything impossible is made
  possible. You just have to call on Him and seek
  support and guidance.
• Get professional help
• People grieve in different ways. It does not mean
  that if someone you know who had the same painful
  experience as yours grieves only for a few days,
  you will as well. If you think that your sadness
  is getting worse, seek help from a professional
  who can offer you psychotherapy in Ottawa.

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• There are different types of therapeutic
  approaches that are used to help people who need
  help in coping with grief. One effective type of
  therapy in Ottawa is grief counselling.

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• Some of the primary goals of grief counseling in
  Ottawa is to help you explore your feelings or
  emotions, understand that grieving is a normal
  process that you need to go through following a
  major event in your life, cope with the pain, and
  move forward with your life.
• Feel the pain and grief
• There is always a time for everything- a time to
  feel grief, happiness, sadness, and anger. Grief
  is just one life fact that people experience a
  couple times in their entire life. You don't have
  to be always happy or pretend that you are happy
  even though you are actually hurting. You can get
  angry, sad, pessimistic, and hurt sometimes.
  Going through all these emotions makes you human.

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• Let yourself feel the pain and grieve for your
  loss until you are no longer hurting. But don't
  let the pain get the best of you. Don't let your
  misery control your life.

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