Invoke self-compassion via the memory of someone who was kind to you, or imagine someone you think would be kind to you. I would be kind to you. Verbally ventilate about what is bothering you in a journal or aloud to a real or imagined friend or to me. Imagine yourself being comforted by a Higher Power. See yourself in the lap of a kind higher power or actual person who seems kind. [Santa Claus once worked well for one of my clients]. Remember a time when you felt better from crying or angering, or
