To ask how your emotional resilience affects the rest of your life?

[JontyDoggle37]

And how you keep yourself ‘on track’ during tough times?
I’m asking this after a day of clearing out my parents home following the death of my mum. I’m supposed to be focused on the new healthy me that hardly drinks, eats loads of veg and doesn’t snack much, but a day like today and it all goes out of the window. The real problem is that the last 15 months have been this high stress on a regular basis and I know my health is suffering and my good intentions are failing, but I just find it so hard to stay on the straight and narrow when I feel so battered...

I think that just makes you human. Be kind to yourself, and that includes giving yourself permission to have a glass of wine or a doughnut when you're feeling rubbish. Self care is so much more than clean eating and being 'healthy'.

I think you are resilient. You just need to be kind to yourself.
What would you say to a friend in similar circumstances who'd had a tough 15 months?

On track, at times, is simply getting through the day.

I’m nearly 2 years down the road from losing a parent from a horrid illness and still trying to find the emotional strength to get back on track, let alone stay on it.

In the meantime I’ve found that I have begun to appreciate the smaller things in life. At a time when “hope” did nothing but let me down, “gratitude” gave me a more real sense of joy even through very tough times.

Grief can be heavy op, take it easy on yourself.