I’m always happy and open to talking honestly based on my personal experience with grief and also share with you a few ways I found that can help us to help ourselves whilst we settle into co-habitation with grief. 

Here are Five Tips for Living with Grief:

• Keep talking and sharing: open, honest, non-judgemental conversation not only makes us feel better, but empathy and sharing experiences can help others to both understand and know they are not alone. 
• Allow yourself to feel your emotions: you will experience everything from happiness to sadness, frustration, anger, anxiety, joy, love, pain and so much more, often within the space of the same minute. Embrace those feelings and feel them in all the weirdness, inappropriateness and confusing ways they fire at you. This is good and normal to feel something.
• Build your resilience: I honestly believe you don’t ever get over grief; it doesn’t go away, but instead it becomes a part of us which we embrace, manage and co-exist with. Whilst you accept it won’t go away, work on building resilience which will be your key to managing and living with it day-to-day harmoniously. 
• Don’t feel guilt or shame: you must NEVER feel guilt or shame for feeling your emotions and living with grief or your response to grief, regardless of why you are grieving or how long you have been experiencing it. There are no rules, boundaries or timescales. Your experience is unique to you, but building your resilience will help massively improve your response to grief and how you continue to move forwards at the same time as learning to live with it.
• Love yourself: yes, learn to love yourself exactly as you are. This means being kind to yourself, looking after yourself and becoming resilient and strong to be the happiest version of yourself even in the times that feel hardest. Focus on the things that are good for you and don’t be concerned with the uninvited opinion of others.

If you are living with grief I would love for you to check out my guide to living with grief – Resources to help you start embracing and living with grief. Prioritise your emotions, pain and self-compassion to start healing and PERFORM at your best whilst honouring your loss. Check it out at:

www.theperformexperience.thinkific.com/courses/living-with-grief

If you need further support with your grief you can find it at: 

Cruse Bereavement Care – https://www.cruse.org.uk/ – phone 0808 808 1677