4 Ideas to Track Your Journey
August 2, 2007 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Practical Tips on Grief
Our progression through the grief process can be long and hard. I am a real believer in tracking your progress. Here are 4 ways that you can use to note your bereavement process.
- Write a blog! I often go back through the archives and see my highs and lows. It also helps me focus on how to get through it. The best part is receiving uplifting e-mails or comments, because they inspire me and show me that grief is universal.
- Write a journal. Again, this allows you to look back and see how you coped, what works for you, how you have changed in a positive sense. As you read it, you can be proud of how you faced disaster square in the face and came through the other side.
- Write a letter to yourself each month. Keep them in an album, write as if you were writing to a friend . Talk about your feelings, talk about what you have achieved, talk about how you are rebuilding your life, talk about how you remember them.
- A further idea is to write a letter to your loved on, tell them how you are feeling, what is happening in your life. That way you still feel part of your life.
The importance is that during any journey there will be hold ups, faster sections etc On the days that you are feeling down you can go and read them for inspiration. A
For me, writing aways helps with whatever problem that I am struggling with. I like being able to look back in my journals to see where I have been and to see how far I have come. It is also nice to look back and see what you have overcome and what’s not a problem any longer.
I have found myself writting a journal not to myself but to my husband. It is helping tremdously because he was the only person I felt comfortable sharing my thoughts with. Now this way I can pour my heart out when there is no one here to talk to. So I know this method of journaling has helped me these two weeks since his death.
Dear Shari,
I was thinking of you today because we share a birthday. It is June 8. So I googled you and found this. I am so sorry about your husband’s death. You both have been an important part of my journey.
love, Ginger Swain
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