Can you picture yourself as a small child? Maybe you have some photos of yourself from back then. Ask your parents if you have them, if your parents are still alive, or if you know them. I hope you do. Anyway, there's a really handy trick that helps you feel better when you're feeling down. And that's picturing yourself as a small child. And out, maybe you've had kids, maybe you haven't, but if you have had kids, they cry, and you kind of soothe them. You can give them their blankie and kind of squeeze them, make them feel better. And it just makes them feel so good. Try to capture that feeling, whether it's the feeling that you have when you choose your own children, or if you don't have any, thinking back to when you were a child and how good it felt. If you were lucky enough to have somebody comfort you when you're feeling down, you can kind of extrapolate that feeling into the idea of self-soothing, and that ties back into self-compassion. There's a really great book by Kristin Neff, which is "The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself," a book about Self-Compassion. And then there's kind of this concept of self-parenting, you know, that finding that inner child and going back to her and soothing her, could be as simple as maybe taking a warm bath, listening to your favorite music. If you're not feeling good right now and you're doomed scrolling on social media, what else can you do right now to help yourself feel better? What is one simple achievable thing you can do in the next five minutes? This is especially helpful if you're going through grief. Pick one thing you can do to feel better in the next five minutes and just do it. Good luck.

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