Getting back to nature to ease my grief
July 21, 2008 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Loneliness, Guilt & Depression
Yesterday I was determined not to feel sorry for myself, not to give in to those weekend feelings when I feel lonely and when my feelings seem out of control.
So I volunteered to help my best friend in her garden. Gosh it was hard work and after hours of weeding, digging, mowing, and clearing I felt great…why? Well, it is amazing how physical work gets the right positive chemicals flowing through your brain.
I have never really liked gardening and I think it helps it was not something we would have done together…it didn’t bring back old painful memories, it created new memories of laughing as my friend and I realised we were getting older as our backs started to ache!
I also think there is a lot to say for getting closer to nature, nature is wonderfully peaceful, nature has that cycle of birth and death, nature has a beauty that can only make you smile.
So my task now is to see if it was gardening that made me smile, or whether it was the company of a good friend…..I hope that in my garden I can find some solace from the grieving.
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Great post, totally agree, getting up and doing something different can often “bring you round” -it’s often hard to do, but well worth the effort, as you say sometimes you may even enjoy it!
The other aspects is that it tires you as well, which helps you sleep and also stops you from thinking about your worries – either you are concentrating on something else, or you are too tired to think about it!
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