Take time to be kind;

If you struggle with showing yourself kindness and compassion because you were so shamed/abused in your childhood that you can’t shake this feeling that there’s something inherently “bad” about you that you need to be “punished” for all the time... consider that you’ve been punished enough. Even though there wasn’t anything deserving of this much punishment to begin with, even if there was... you’ve suffered enough. When will enough be enough? How many more years must you suffer? It’s time to start being gentle and kind with yourself.

taking care of yourself sometimes means steering your thoughts away from worries. people always talk about confronting fears head-on, but sometimes it's as simple as saying, "Just go for it and stop overthinking - even if ‘not overthinking’ means not letting yourself think about it until you have to."