Signs that you are Healing

As you progress in your grief journey you may wonder whether any healing is taking place. Here are a few signs that healing is indeed taking place.

• A recognition of the reality and finality of death and loss. 
• An understanding that the pain of loss is inseparable from the privilege of giving and receiving love. 
• The understanding that you do not get over your grief but instead learn to live in a new reality
• Accepting the way things are, rather than attempting to make things as they were
• A return to stable eating and sleeping patterns 
• Thoughts of your loss no longer preoccupy your thinking.
• The establishment of new and healthy relationships 
• The capacity to live without feelings of guilt or lack of self-respect 
• The drive to organize and plan your life for the future
• Welcoming change in your life 
• The awareness that you have survived and that full grieving and mourning are behind you 
• A sense of renewed meaning and purpose