Healing mantra for today

• Living and feeling my grief does not have to result in making myself physically, mentally or emotionally disabled.
• I cannot change other people's decisions, but I can make my own decisions about how to deal with the current situation in my life.
• If I feel sad, I can allow myself to feel that sadness. I do not have to repress my feelings, as I used to do.
• If I feel better, and things get easier, I do not have to push myself back into depression again, as I used to do.
• Just because I am not happy, I do not have to give up the things I love. I can allow myself to have coping methods.
• I do not have to act like as if everything was OK, I do not have to act happy. I do not have to jump into action with full force, especially if I realize that doing so without healing would only hurt more.
• If dealing with the art project intensely, or any other mundane action causes me pain, I can give myself time and decide not to do it for another day.
• Just because someone has decided not to talk to me, it does not mean that I am less loveable or valuable for either him or anyone else. 
• I can decide to continue the art project, I can decide to show those who count on me that I am there for them. I can allow myself to be happy in it, even if my ex-friend does not participate in it anymore. I do not have to sabotage the project consciously, or on an unconscious level.
• I can allow myself to move on. And I can take as much time as I need for that.