- Be present with the difficult feelings
- Focus on the sensations in your body
- Allow the difficult feeling to exist without trying to push it away
Try:
- Taking deep breaths
- Exercising
- Stretching
- Going for a walk
- Examine your feelings with kindness
- Lean away from excessive self-critique or shame and into accountability
- Remember that failures and mistakes are a part of the human experience
Try:
- Imagining someone you love in your current situation and think about how you would talk to them; treat yourself with the same fairness and empathy
- Bring your attention to the things in your life that bring you joy
- Make note of 3 things that you’re grateful for each day
- Think about connections or people that have nourished you
Try:
- Thinking of things that you are grateful for the next time you’re stuck in an overwhelming feeling