PHYSICAL HEALTH FOR WIDOWS
Last week we talked about putting up a windmill when the high winds of life begin to blow our way. I think it is fair to say that losing your partner is like being in hurricane powered winds – like you can’t even catch your breathe at times!! It makes you want to run for cover…and for a time, you do because you must.
But when the winds begin to shift, we must resist the urge to go semi-isolated and find a flexible agreement with that voice inside. That means you will have to actively choose to step-by-step live with some resistance and come to peace with it vs. off-loading the hurt and fear that comes with doing new things as a new person.
If we off-load, or otherwise known as numbing our pain, we resist accepting healthy emotions and therefore, the healing that comes forth with working through those emotions………’it ends up looking like alcohol, drugs, food, bad relationships, money, work, gambling, affairs, religion, chaos, shopping, planning, perfectionism and…
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