Close your eyes. Inhale for 4. Hold for 4. Exhale for 6. Repeat until your mind stops racing. Let silence be the goal, not peace.
Light a candle. Whisper the one thing you’re still carrying today. Blow it out. Imagine the smoke as release. Keep the unspoken safe.
Wear something that makes you feel protected — a hoodie, a crystal, your silence. This is your shield. You don’t owe softness to a cruel world.
Write one page. Don't filter. Burn it, delete it, keep it — doesn’t matter. You wrote it. It exists outside of you now.