In the first few weeks of 2025 change occurred not only in the weather and seasons, celebrated holidays, now behind us but unexpected changes in California Los Angeles to name but one, swept the nation in disaster yet again. How on earth are you handling so much drastic change, loss and grief?
For many people there are two paths once they get feelings back after the shock and numbness of the tragedies'.
One group will choose to face the loss with a built in resilience practiced over the years and choose to rebuild their lives or move away from the places of such loss letting go of what is gone and restarting life else where.
This choice will cost emotionally mentally physically financially spiritually and in their career or business lives
It will pull on all their inner resources and what relationships they have or make from here on. It will draw on their willingness to embrace a fresh start and new world. For this group these are some of the questions they may have to ask themselves:
What worked before ?
what did not work ?
what can I do now that I could not do before?
Who can help me now?
These will be some of the rebuilding blocks that this group will need to ask and answer.
The need to have a vision and be around those who will support or help with vision is a starting place to in this brave new world.
For the other group of people who have become paralyzed with the tragedy they may be experiencing a downward spiral becoming more difficult, and unable to bounce back, as daily feelings of hopelessness stops them from making decisions.
For these people I would like to say and I know so would many other caring helpers, there is still hope, while you are breathing there is still life on the table. To make a start from where you are, take one small step ,even if its just to say thankyou for this day and breath. There is help from many agencies and people who are showing their love in different ways, and you are not alone.
My hope is that you will decide that life is still worth living and that even if it is possible to reach out to someone else in the same situation, this may be the next step to moving upward and eventually out of the overwhelming grief cycle. Change will move with you, and my hope is that you will experience the glimmer of hope that you are still here for a reason.
The will to survive and fight is still in you! it may just be buried under allot right now but never give up!