Waiting it out helps, but healing is mostly what you build in the meantime: friends, routines, reasons to get up.

Time by itself does less than people promise. What makes the difference is what accumulates while it passes, the person who checks in, the small structure of a week, the reasons to be upright by morning. The calendar is the setting, not the cure.

If something is hurting right now, you might pick one routine to hold on to and one person to stay in contact with. That is enough to be working on.