skills for reclaiming your own life that you can practice:
- saying no when asked to do something you could you could technically do but at a great cost to yourself
- allowing yourself to want things
- doing something that you want because you want it
- getting something that you want because you want it
- asking for the things you want
- eating a food you enjoy
- changing something in your space that will make you happy (get a furniture you like, or a decoration, or put up a cool piece of art, or move something you use often to a more accessible spot)
- changing something about your body that will make you happy (like getting a haircut, hair dye, tattoo, piercing, hrt, nail polish - do not try to force your body into a vastly different shape than what it is. do something within reach)
- wearing something that will make you feel cool, or cute, or pretty, or badass, or comfy. something that will make you happier
- admitting a situation is miserable and that you want it to be different
- wanting to change a situation to be less miserable
- not punishing yourself for wanting to be less miserable
- finding what can possibly be done to make a situation less miserable
- changing something about a situation that makes you miserable
- accepting kind words and compliments
- accepting failure and imperfection
