Stephanie Coontz Quotes

You can't go to Amazon and order a book on how you handle grief. There's books on it, sure. But there's no tried and true manual. You just have to live that out. There's no formula to heal.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

A person doesn't mourn forever.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

It is useless to tear our hair out when we are in grief, since sorrow is not cured by baldness

That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

Everyone deals with sadness and lack of love when they're kids, and all this abandonment. Most people do. Hopefully you want to learn something new, and you want to move on to this other place, and I think, for me, it was like, I really didn't know how to calm myself down.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

You probably can overcome what you're going through from listening to my music.

A breakup is a state of mind that needs encouragement and needs hopeful, forward thinking.

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.