Talk to someone you trust who will understand what you're feeling. Express your emotions through writing, painting, dancing, music, or other creative outlets. Use these activities to process your deepest reactions to losing your job on an emotional level.

1. Here are Some of the Ways
to get in Touch
with the Feelings Around
Job Loss

2. Talk to Someone
● Whom you
trust
● Who will
understand
what you’re
feeling

3. WRITE
Express everything you’re feeling at
this emotionally demanding time.
Pour it all out into your pen.

4. Paint…
in your own
unique
way...

5. Let your
hands...
… get carried away,
working with clay

6. When no one’s looking,
Dance out
the feelings

7. Make music, and give voice to
everything you feel

8. This isn’t only about “getting in
touch with your feelings.”
It’s about getting in touch with
how the deepest parts of
yourself are reacting
to the situation.