Many of you have questions… many of you are looking for answers.  So to fill that need I’m starting a new Q & A series on the BBN blog where I will take your questions and focus on a particular aspect for that post.

Today’s Question: Will I ever be happy again? 

If you have endured a recent relationship break up, if you are in the process of breaking up, or if you are divorcing or have suffered through a painful divorce, you are hurting. And now you might be thinking that you are all alone.  That what has happened to you is so sad and awful that no one wants to know, that no one wants to hear.  

Perhaps your friends have scattered as they often tend to do.  Maybe couples you used to hang with have run for the hills.  But here you are – overwhelmed and feeling lost and all alone.  Well I am truly sorry for your loss.  I am sorry for your pain.

How did this happen?  We won’t go there; that is a dead-end street.

Here You Are

As you work through your grief, I want you to know that there is hope and there is help.  As for my creds, I endured a catastrophic break up with my fiance (been together 17 years) - at the same exact time that my mother was dying!!  Two other things happened to me as well  - but I won’t go there now.   The point is – I know of pain, lots of it. I know disappointment.  I know despair.

But I am no longer there.  Yes, there is a time for grief when your feelings are raw.  Yes, you can cry and cry as long as you need to.  Then one day you will begin to realize that time alone is not going to make this right.  One day you will begin to realize that there must be another path out of this deep dark abyss.  You know that there’s just go to be a way out of this.

The Next Step

Take heart. This is the beginning of the time of light.  This is the time of the new dawn.  It begins by you knowing that you need and deserve to be nurtured – even if you have to do it yourself.  It begins by you beginning to know that you are a wonderful and joyous creature – there is only one you.  It begins by you beginning to know that you are a true gift in other people’s lives.  It begins by you beginning to embark on a proven process.  It begins by you making a commitment to try a new approach – one that works.

So the answer to today’s question is an unequivocal YES!  Yes, you will be happy again. Yes, it is possible. Yes, it can really happen for YOU.

My message to you is to: Begin to have hope.  Seek out some help – it is all around you.  That is the first step.  

Best wishes to you for a new dawn,  Donna Marie

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Donna Marie Thompson, PhD – The Bouncing Back Now Relationship Coach – is a best-selling author, a Certified Professional Coach, a Certified NLP Practitioner, and a Master Practitioner of the Energy Leadership Index. Donna Marie is listed as one of America’s Premier Experts in relationships and personal development. She is the host of the “Bouncing Back Now” show on the Real Coaching Radio TV network and the  “Bounce Back”show on webtalkradio.  Donna Marie is a featured relationship expert panelist on the new Conscious View TV series.  She has been the special guest on many radio shows and on the Brian Tracy TV Show as seen on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox affiliates across the country.  Donna Marie will be showcased on the national TV show “World’s Greatest”  in July 2011.

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