Self-care
Men, we have had a great deal of trauma the past two days. People have been harmed, and many had felt both anger and pain.
Now, today, we once again have to deal with the nearly unbearable pain of the suicide of one of us.
Most of us have been affected in one way or another these days. We each need to care for ourselves, and when possible, comfort each other.
Remember, in times of grief we don't always think so clearly. We can lose recall of recent events. We may feel frightened. We may be angry that we were not allowed to do enough. We may need to force ourselves to eat and we may feel guilty to even be alive or to laugh and be happy.
It is good to allow ourselves to cry, yell, run away for a little while, work out or exercise, watch sometinhg that makes us laugh, eat something that we really like, talk to a friend, take a hot bubble bath, whatever you need to do to go through the grief because we all know we cannot skip around it.
Mentally let us lock our arms together and feel that power that we very definitely are loved and very definitely a apart of a large group of strong, good, decent, caring men who just now need to lean on each other.
Please be really good and gentle with yourselves. Take a break from all the seriousness if you can.
Bob
Now, today, we once again have to deal with the nearly unbearable pain of the suicide of one of us.
Most of us have been affected in one way or another these days. We each need to care for ourselves, and when possible, comfort each other.
Remember, in times of grief we don't always think so clearly. We can lose recall of recent events. We may feel frightened. We may be angry that we were not allowed to do enough. We may need to force ourselves to eat and we may feel guilty to even be alive or to laugh and be happy.
It is good to allow ourselves to cry, yell, run away for a little while, work out or exercise, watch sometinhg that makes us laugh, eat something that we really like, talk to a friend, take a hot bubble bath, whatever you need to do to go through the grief because we all know we cannot skip around it.
Mentally let us lock our arms together and feel that power that we very definitely are loved and very definitely a apart of a large group of strong, good, decent, caring men who just now need to lean on each other.
Please be really good and gentle with yourselves. Take a break from all the seriousness if you can.
Bob