– take a walk in the snow in your bare feet.

– light a cigarette and watch it burn; don’t smoke it.

– put on all your favorite clothes. layer them. look at the way they look on you.

– appreciate your body.

– smell your plants, even if they’re not flowers. water them, love them the way you want to be love. love them the way they want to be loved.

– remember you are one person now but there are so many people you can be.

– close your eyes and play a favorite song in your head.

– paint your nails then take the paint off. look at the bits left behind, imagine those as your problems, over time, you will scratch them off; they will disappear.

– pick a leaf off a tree, hold it, cry because you hurt it, but then remember it will forgive you, remember that you will always be forgiven.

– love yourself.

– love the freckles on your left cheek, the stretches on your toes, the scars on your wrist.

– love yourself.