He talks about the four healing emotions, and the importance of getting in touch with and experiencing them all to help heal your heart. Now, for me, it's very tough to do that, because experiencing all of these emotions makes it all the more real. But I know I have to.
So what do I do? I turn to music, one of my perpetual sources of solace. The brain may resist thinking about the pain, but put that playlist on, and I can't help but feel it. I sing along, I listen, I laugh and I cry. Somehow, though, by the time it's all over, I feel a little better. Click the underlined songs for lyrics links.
Garbage - Special, Stupid Girl
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
Papa Roach - Last Resort
Note: If you listen to this song and relate to the suicide aspect, please please please get in touch with a crisis hotline! Take it from someone who's been down that road, it's not worth it, really! I take the "I can't go on living this way" to mean I can't keep waiting to wake up from this nightmare.
Alanis Morissette - The Jagged Little Pill album, just skip tracks 4 and 8. Track 4 just doesn't do it for me, and Head Over Feet is obviously inappropriate!
Tori Amos - Anything. Really. Especially Boys for Pele.
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom or Return to Saturn. Especially "Happy Now" on Tragic Kingdom.
Britney Spears - Stronger, Don't Go Knockin' On My Door. I'm serious, I know you don't believe me, but just forget about the whole teeny bopper obsession with her.
Blaque - As If
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Creed - Beautiful, What If
Ani DiFranco - Sorry I Am
Sheryl Crow - Anything But Down
Indigo Girls - Ghost, Philosophy of Loss, Love's Recovery
Alanis Morisette - The hidden track, Your House, on Jagged Little Pill
A Chorus Line - What I Did for Love
Splender - I Think God Can Explain
Sting - Fragile, Shape of My Heart
The Cure - Love Song
N'Sync - I Thought She Knew
Jewel - Foolish Games
Tori Amos - The Doughnut Song (though there is the undercurrent of anger...), 1000 Oceans, Spring Haze, Cooling
Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You, I Will Not Forget You, Do What You Have to Do, Hold On, Mercy, Circle, Fear, Full of Grace, The Path of Thorns
Sheryl Crow: We Do What We Can, Strong Enough, I Shall Believe, My Favorite Mistake, The Difficult Kind
Billy Joel - And So It Goes, Why Judy Why, Tomorrow is Today, Got to Begin Again, Summer, Highland Falls, I've Loved These Days, C'Etait Toi (You Were the One), Shades of Grey, Famous Last Words
Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
Billy Joel - And So It Goes, Got to Begin Again
Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace
Sheryl Crow - The Difficult Kind
Tori Amos - 1000 Oceans
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide