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Many places will tell you to focus on gear and clothes and playing games where you are your kintype, but those have never done much for me. What has always helped me is figuring out what parts of my body, skillset, and life style I can change to better match my kintype. If my kintype is a powerful runner that navigates the forest with ease and eats a mixture of fish and wild berries, then that gives me a list of dysphoria alleviating goals that looks like:

- start jogging or practicing on a treadmill to get better at running and feel fit in a way that matches my animal counterpart

- spend more time in the woods getting comfortable with uneven terrain and familiarizing myself with the patch of woods I am visiting

- start eating more fish, or maybe even learn how to fish, and learn about berries that can be foraged in my area

A fox far too comfortable around suburbia. A fox who lost it's teeth and makes it's home beneath your porches.

A fox domesticated is still a fox

appears out of nowhere

drops this

breathe. breathe in. hold it. breathe out. feel the weight of your wings shift and settle on your back each time it rises and falls. breathe in and stretch your wings upward, then out, then fold them back in as you exhale. repeat this a few times to really shake the dust off your wings

keep breathing. clear your mind. sway your hips from side to side, and notice how the weight of your tail adds momentum to each mighty swish. tilt them forwards and back, and feel how your tail pulls your hips down. curl and uncurl it. try to move it a little bit

nuzzle against your scales. maybe even lick them a bit if you’re feeling particularly fastidious. how do they feel? rough? smooth? warm? cold? if you have feathers, do you feel them? your hide is tough and impenetrable. consider how it envelops your body and keeps you safe

flex your claws. they’re sharp, aren’t they? be careful with them. you don’t want to cut anything by accident. run your tongue over your teeth. those are pretty sharp too. you’re built to hunt. you were designed by millions of years of evolution to catch and eat prey. you’re the perfect predator

focus on what your highly-tuned senses are telling you. what can you hear? what can you smell? how does the environment around you feel on your scales? think about the taste of prey on your tongue? does it make you salivate? are you hungry?