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	<title>Better Relationships &#187; after the divorce</title>
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		<title>Devastated by Divorce? How Self-Care Can Help You Heal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2018 22:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Swaniger]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CONFLICT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; After a divorce, you are faced with an unknown frontier. A shared future, once planned and full of possibilities for discovery and passion, is forever changed. Perhaps your journey now feels scary and uncertain. You’re standing at the starting line again. Alone. Do you feel as though you’ve lost a big piece of yourself or who you thought you were? It is that feeling that makes self-care after a divorce so crucial for your mental and emotional healing.  Why Is Self-Care a Vital Part of the Healing Process? After a divorce, you are tackling the world and figuring out a new path for yourself on your own. Going forward and building a new life for yourself requires being as strong as you can be, both mentally and emotionally. And beginning the healing process by looking inward will help you in your outward journey to happiness and feeling whole once more. Divorce can stir up buried emotions or create new feelings that may be crippling to our sense of self. These can include feeling hopeless or helpless that the future can be brighter or anxiety about moving on alone or guilt that you could have or should have done more to save your marriage. Before you can begin your pursuit of a new life in earnest, acknowledging, accepting, and processing these or other emotions you might have will be vital. Self-Care for the Healing Process How you go about your self-care looks will different from what others do for themselves. Finding what works best for you may take a little time. For example will a divorce recovery group or individual counseling or being among friends or going it alone be the best route? But ultimately, your self-care regimen will be your guide through the healing process of divorce recovery. Consider these helpful self-care steps: 1) Allow yourself to grieve Divorce is a trauma. No need to always put on a brave face. Sometimes, we feel guilty or ashamed to grieve. It may seem to be a sign of weakness, which can be especially true for men. However, grief is a natural reaction to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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