SIGNS OF RECOVERY

Grief and Loss Anonymous

1. Acceptance: We acknowledge our loss and are grateful for our willingness to embrace it.

2. Awareness: We have developed greater understanding of our emotions and how to express them.

3. Reconnection: We connect with ourselves and others in ways that are meaningful to them and us.

4. Self-Care: We prioritize our own well-being, knowing we must first care for ourselves before we can care for others.

5. Surrender: We surrender to the process of recovery knowing it is happening whenever we apply ourselves to it.

6. Boundaries: We establish and maintain healthy boundaries, ensuring we provide ourselves the time and space needed to heal and grow.

7. Forgiveness: We forgive ourselves and others knowing that resentment is an unnecessary impediment to our recovery.

8. Support: We actively seek support and offer it to others.

9. Spirit: Through our healing we enliven the best of our spirit and the world around us.

10. Present: We focus on living in this moment and celebrate the abundance that fills each day, recognizing that our loss, though it may still be with us, is more a part of our past than it is our future.

11. Hope: With new-found perspectives we look forward to tomorrow, knowing that healing is possible even amidst our grief.

12. Service: We give back what we have freely received so that others may also live their best journey as they go and grow through grief.