Jim Kwik walks through the acute stage of breakup shock, which feels like substance withdrawal. Talk to someone to stop spiraling thoughts, write down your feelings, do gentle movement like stretching or yoga, and stay around people you trust. Healing takes time, but these steps move you toward acceptance.
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How can we approach that separation or that breakup? For people going through that, especially the acute stage, which is usually the first few months where you're in shock, know that what you're going through is actually very common and normal. You have to understand that it is sort of like a withdrawal from a substance. So practical things that people can do, talk to someone, because when things are in our head and we don't write them down, they have a tendency to become bigger and to like swallow us whole. Write it down. That's That's part of processing your feelings. So you're experiencing depression, you're experiencing anger, you're experiencing denial. You're not at the acceptance stage. You gotta move your body. Now, even if you're exhausted, you don't have to go for a run. You don't have to lift weights. Stretch, do some yoga, do some breathing exercises. And you have to surround yourself with the person or the people who you feel safe with. It takes time, but it works.