Kindness-for-self might be allowing yourself to sleep as much as you need to, without yelling at yourself for it. It might be saying no to a social engagement. It might be turning the car around right after you’ve arrived in the parking lot, having decided that getting groceries is just too much for you to bear right now. It might mean cutting yourself some slack, backing off of the demands you place on yourself. It might mean pushing yourself sometimes, taking yourself out of the softer nest of distraction into the bigger landscape of pain.
