Tips for Self-Care In The Belly Of The Beast

Part 2 in a Series

1. Think of all the times you scoffed at someone who said, “But it’s a dry heat!” and how wrong you were. In here, it’s a wet heat, and you long for the Mojave.
2. Practice making yourself as small as possible. The walls are closing in, tightening, squeezing.
3. Geppetto built a boat, but you have no boat-making skills.
4. Practice self-affirmations to get through the long days of actually being acid reflux.
5. With no day or night in here, you can finally catch up on your sleep.
6. Good for you! You finally gave up coffee/smoking/drinking/whatever habit was getting you through the hard times. You didn’t even know, then, what hard times were.

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