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Low mood and hard feelings

Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.

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Theme · Letting it out safely
When everything feels flat 35Emotions as signals 19When you use something to cope 12Tolerate distress 11Shame 7When you go numb 6Question the thought 5Act on your values 2Letting it out safely 1Working with anger 1Calm the body 1
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Punching something to get the anger out is the piece of grief advice that gets argued over most, and the honest answer is that hitting rarely leaves a person calmer.

Plenty of good people will tell you a bag is better than a wall or a face, and there is something in that. What has not held up is the older idea…

Five minutesLetting it out safelyGriefQur’an 14:26