Building A New Life From Grief
August 5, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
If you were building a house you wouldn’t just sit and look at a piece of ground and hope that a house appeared! So if we want to build a new life we need to think like an architect of our own life. Grief means that we need to rebuild our life.
Design – What kind of life do you want? Design the life that you want to build so that you can have a picture which you can build towards.
Foundations – All life’s – and houses – are built on solid foundations. Grief causes your life to be turned upside …read more
Finding your Strengths for a New Life
October 1, 2007 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Comfort Yourself
When you are bereaved, you go through the stage of just not seeing the future, how can you ever enjoy life again. This shows through in the comments of this blog. But you can find happiness, you can find a new life.
What I would suggest is that you think about your strengths, think about what makes you who you are. We can fall into the trap of thinking that our lost love made us who we are…that is not true. We are who we are because of our experiences, we existed before and we will exist after our bereavement. …read more
