Hopeless feelings

[flowmom]

(((mb))). I'm having trouble with GAL too. Don't be too hard on yourself. There's a time for GAL and there's a time for grief, and you need to grieve too. I think we protect ourselves from absorbing the full impact of the sitch by pretending to ourselves. That can be part of our strength, and with little ones depending on us we don't have the luxury of totally falling apart and then GAL with abandon. I think that for us it's more like little steps: a little grieving, a little GALing, etc. I'm in the middle of a wave of grief and I'm feeling really hopeless too. I'm trying to just stay with my feelings so that I can release them properly.