From Weakness Comes Strength

This week I have felt so much stronger and I put it down to

• Friendship. There is nothing like talking about how you feel to release the emotion and then rebuild that fragile strength.
• Exercise. I have been to the gym for the last 6 days and even on days when I didn’t want to go, I went. The exercise helped my brain, helped produce those positive chemicals in my body.
• Future. Changing my thinking from the past to the future. This is hard, really hard. However, once I think about how to create good for others, I feel better inside.
• Laughing. I forced myself to go to see a film and laugh….sounds strange but laughing also helps to ease the pain. At a film I don’t feel guilty, after all the story is ….well a story. I am allowed to laugh….at home I feel guilty but in a dark cinema, I feel free.
• Music. I was struggling to sleep and the lack of sleep was draining my energy to fight back. So I now put on gentle relaxing music which helps me unwind and forget my worries. 

Grieving is like a rollercoaster…sometimes up, sometimes down. I suppose a trick is to learn from the ups…..to store the strength, to store the energy from feeling better for those bad days.

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