When you’ve lost a piece of your heart, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.
The process of recovering from loss can feel impossible on the best days, never mind the other days. In fact, it can be oddly tempting sometimes to give in to your feelings of hopelessness. It’s not that they feel good… they’re just so familiar. Even when you know that the past is the past and what’s done is done, the prospect of starting over can feel incredibly overwhelming.
It can be really daunting to face the blank page of an entirely new life chapter.
It takes a lot of courage to set aside preconceived notions of what’s possible for you and your life now, but that’s precisely what you must do… otherwise, they will hold you back, like a ball and chain around your ankle, as you try to get unstuck and moving again.
Thomas Jefferson said, If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
In order to get free from regret and make peace with your past, you’ve got to tap into that part of yourself that can still imagine being back on your feet and living a new and good life. It means different things to different people, but everyone relates to the need to somehow lay the past to rest. And no matter what went before, everyone deserves to be able to move on and resume living and loving life.
There is no road map, no pre-planned itinerary, and no timeline for the process.
It’s a river that can’t be pushed. The trick, if there is one, is to go with the flow of the moment at hand, and then the next one, and then the one after that, one moment and one step at a time.
Here’s the link to my podcast entitled “Overcoming Overwhelm.” In it I will:
– Explain why it’s natural to struggle with overwhelm in hard times
– Show you the hidden logic in feeling stuck even though you want to move
forward
– Offer some concrete suggestions to help you tap into your strength to get
back on your feet and onto the path that leads to your new, good life
Listen to this episode and post your thoughts below!