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Sit down with your back against a tree. If it’s warm enough, place your bare feet on the ground. Lean against the tree and feel its weight. Tell the tree about your heartbreak. Tell it the story of your love and about the person who you are missing. Feel the tree supporting you.  Do this over and over again - ideally once per day if you can. Your story will change - maybe getting shorter or longer or sadder or angrier each time. Eventually, you will find that you don’t have anything left to say to the tree. Thank it and say goodbye. 
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dang i aint even started and im already cryin!! this is beautifUl
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perfect. trees and humans have energetic relationships that go way beyond exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide and vice versa
 when we love them they love us back. hug trees forreal. imagine that energetic flow btw them and you. they’ll heal ya! basically, justdo Beatrix’s advice.
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@BOOTYBUTT exactly!!
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this is a poem
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my last break up i just sat under the tree we first talked to each other at and cried as many tears as i could. after that i decided to just walk around everywhere i had memories of us attached to that day and make new ones of only me, weirdly enough it always helps me find closure and focus on myself rather than dwelling on the past.
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i am so sorry! love is the sweetest thing! remind yourself the air you breathe in is not lost when you let it out!!! and you'll always breathe more back in. maybe sometime later you'll breathe in a puff of air you already inhaled before! such is love and its ever-present overflowing abundant nature.
my advice is to start doing new things from now that don't involve him, try not to talk to him about them at all, and try not to think of him while doing it. like a new hobby, or frequenting a new coffee shop, or volunteering somewhere, etc. it's like branching out from your current norm, creating something new and independent of the relationship, that is untouched/un-'tainted' kinda. it's like opening a new tab or window mentally. or creating new files. by the time you move away, and are going through it, you'll want a portion of your life you can resort to that is fresh and separate from the Big Sad, no matter how small. sending u hugs
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Live with heartbreak for a while. It‘ll be different but the same. You’ll forget why and then remember and feel it all over again. Delete their pictures but keep them in a secret folder on your phone so you can cry by yourself watching their face smile at you.
Re-learn old habits you’ve forgotten you even enjoyed because you strayed so far away from who you once were. In some odd way you’ll have to re-learn happiness, too. Well, not so much re-learning it but changing its meaning, find new ways to feel fulfilled, the same way you once felt with them.
Make some more lame playlists with oddly specific titles so you at least feel like you’re making something out of all the quiet pain you feel inside.
And wonder. A lot of wondering. All the time. Everywhere. In your house. At your job. Inside your body and next to you in the bed you once woke beside them, smiling.
And you’ll never forget, but it will get painfully easier.

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