^^^That is a fantastic post Joe, you have grown a ton since coming here! Keep it up brother, you are doing great!
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I'm trying to just embrace the feelings of sadness and loneliness.
That is exactly the thing to do. Sure they are unpleasant feelings but they are VALID feelings and we need to accept them as part of our range of daily/ weekly/ monthly emotions and not try to fight them or make them go away. We have a saying in Crossfit (which I have to tell myself nearly every workout)- "embrace the suck." Sometimes you just know a big ol' heaping helping of "suck" is being plopped in your lap, and almost always the best approach is to smile and make it your b****
