Effective Ways To Deal With Loneliness After A Breakup
One of the known effects of a breakup is the feeling of loneliness. Initially, you were used to spending and sharing your life with a significant other. Now? You have a truckload of free time and don’t know what to do.
Feeling lonely after a breakup is natural. But when it becomes your second nature, you need to carry out some self-reflection to break out of it.
What do you do when you constantly feel lonely? Follow these practical steps to deal with it.
━ Take a Walk and Admire the Beauty of the Day
You might want to spend all your day holed up inside your room or cry yourself to sleep every night. But these actions are counterproductive to your total recovery from the breakup. You need to step out of your home and just…walk.
Take a short walk around the neighborhood and feel the sun on your face. Admire all the beautiful things that gave you great joy and interact with them. Take pictures of the scenic horizon and share your thoughts about them.
The bottom line is to keep yourself busy and not drown in loneliness.
━ Just Breathe
Loneliness can often throw your body into survival mode: fight or flight. However, the key to dealing with it is to breathe. Dedicate 4 to 5 minutes to focus on cleansing breaths. You might see the action as ordinary, but it helps keep you level-headed and relieve the emotional pressure building inside you.
You can practice this 3 times daily.
━ Nurture Past Friendships
A relationship may sometimes put your friends and loved ones in the background. Now that you’re out of a relationship, you need to reach out to them to kill the loneliness and boredom you’re feeling.
Your friends, who are pretty understanding, will welcome you back into their fold with open arms. Your true friends will not give up on you. Use the opportunity to reach out to them and catch up on stuff you might have missed when you were in a relationship.
━ Volunteer for Social/Community Works
You can shift focus away from the loneliness you feel by volunteering for social or community work. Volunteering emotionally puts you in a better place, as you’d be investing your time and energy in activities that will make the world a better place.
Expert studies show that volunteering can reduce stress, limit depression, and give you a sense of purpose. You don’t have to commit your entire day to community work. A couple of hours weekly can do the trick.
━ Play Music
Music is therapeutic and can fill up that void left by your broken relationship. Music can reconnect you with positive emotions and feelings. So, open that music app and jam to your favorite playlist.
You won’t feel lonely afterward.
━ Seek Professional Help
Loneliness can leave you numb and bare. That’s why you need professional help to transform that loneliness and helplessness into the fulfillment of purpose. If you’re still suffering from unresolved grief, you can take the Conscious Uncoupling™ program to help you live life on your own terms.
You can book a free 30 minutes session with me to learn how the program can help you become a better version of yourself.