And that’s OK. It’s OK to experience pain and loss. As Good Housekeeping reports, according to John Forsyth, Ph.D., director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the University at Albany, “pretending not to be in pain is stressful in itself; our culture says that it’s not OK to feel pain and stress. But when we sidestep our inner anguish, our lives then morph into being all about avoiding pain.” Before you can move forward, you need to acknowledge your loss. Then you can start taking steps to put your life back together, one piece at a time.
