[header] How to heal after a divorce [title] Feel your emotions. [step] While it's easier to shove your feelings away or cover them in anger, this doesn't help your healing. Take some time to grieve and feel the gamut of your emotions. 
There may be days you feel overwhelmingly sad, or others when you feel loving or forgiving toward your ex, and still others when you feel fear, relief, resentment, or confusion. Whatever you're feeling, allow yourself to actually feel it and not push it away.