Dedicated especially to a friend who needs it at the moment, but maybe it'll help others, too.

• SOLITUDE.
• Yoga
• Any other physical activity
  • Especially brisk walking
• Learning something new
  • Teaching myself a new song on guitar is a sure confidence booster
• Helping someone out
• Petting cats
• Animal sanctuary work
  • Combining two great things that go even better together!
• Confiding in a trusted friend
• Finding joy in little things
• Making a long list of things I love and am grateful for
  • Including all those little things
• Finding ways to indulge in some of said things
  • Self-care FTW
• Reading
  • Fiction or nonfiction, doesn't matter
• Journaling
  • It's how I've gotten so good at advising my friends
    • And myself
• Making lists in general
  • Listography was basically made for me
• Assloads of tea
• Doing something creative
  • Even just shopping my closet for new outfits
  • Or playing with makeup
  • And again with the guitar and singing
  • Pixeling was a good outlet until I stopped because it was just TOO depressing
  • Writing prose and the occasional poem or haiku has replaced pixeling as my coping mechanism
    • Feeling down? Create the grumpiest, most cynical and spiteful character you can think of, then write something from that character's point of view. I promise, it works wonders
      • I really gotta finish writing that book, though. IT'S GONNA HAPPEN despite the fact that she’s become a lot less grumpy/cynical/spiteful and a lot more of a hedonistic, shit-stirring troll… HMMMMMM
• Cleaning and getting rid of stuff I no longer need
  • Pretentious people would call it curating my life, I suppose
• Organizing everything neatly
• Baking
  • Especially for others
  • Even if it looks like shit, it always tastes delicious
• Eating healthy, delicious food
• Meditation
  • Though I have a hard time turning off my chattering mind sometimes
    • Maybe a guided meditation could help
• Burning incense or scented candles
• Selfies, selfies, selfies
• Catnaps
• Masturbating
  • Hormones, I love you