Chanced upon this thought catalog piece and feel like sharing with y'all!
1. Make a playlist of all your favorite songs, old ones you may have totally forgotten about from middle school or ones that bring back good memories.
2. Take a walk outside. I find I only start to feel worse and wallow if I let myself melt into my bed and engage in the bad feelings.
3. Organize your drawers or closet. It feels good to be productive when you feel like a worthless idiot on the inside. You can look at your clean clothes and feel like a human again.
4. Eat something decadent. Make an ice cream sundae or smores. They’re not just for camping!
5. Go through your phone and delete anyone you no longer talk to or anyone who sucks and makes your life worse.
6. Call your best friend. No one talks on the phone anymore. I hate it. Let’s all talk in voices!
7. Re-read your favorite book. Highlight the passages that make you love it so much so you’ll never forget them.
8. Read everything you can find about your favorite sports team. If you’re not already, become an expert on the team’s history, statistics and players. It’ll take your mind off you for a while.
9. Go volunteer with animals in some way. Being around cuties and fluffies will brighten your mood, and so will helping those in need.
10. Do some yoga poses. You can look them up online if you don’t know any. Try holding them and breathing slowly.
11. Go on Youtube and watch all the “fail” videos you can find. Be grateful you are not that person. Being you ain't so bad!
12. Futz around with your hair. Add some color or see what it would look like curly or in a beehive.
13. Do your make up. Make it look crazy or much thicker than you’d normally wear it. What would you look like as Amy Winehouse or Ke$ha? You’re in the comfort of your own home. Why not see?
14. Eat fruit. Fruit has sugars that can lift your mood. Go for the pineapple and blueberries. Or make yourself a smoothie.
15. If you have a journal, go back and read old entries. Remember all that stuff you cared about a year ago that now doesn’t matter?
16. Smile. Even if you don’t feel like it, sometimes moving the muscles in our face activates chemicals in our brains to lift our moods. Smiling when you don’t want to can actually help you feel better.
4. Eat something decadent. Make an ice cream sundae or smores. They’re not just for camping!
5. Go through your phone and delete anyone you no longer talk to or anyone who sucks and makes your life worse.
6. Call your best friend. No one talks on the phone anymore. I hate it. Let’s all talk in voices!
7. Re-read your favorite book. Highlight the passages that make you love it so much so you’ll never forget them.
8. Read everything you can find about your favorite sports team. If you’re not already, become an expert on the team’s history, statistics and players. It’ll take your mind off you for a while.
9. Go volunteer with animals in some way. Being around cuties and fluffies will brighten your mood, and so will helping those in need.
10. Do some yoga poses. You can look them up online if you don’t know any. Try holding them and breathing slowly.
11. Go on Youtube and watch all the “fail” videos you can find. Be grateful you are not that person. Being you ain't so bad!
12. Futz around with your hair. Add some color or see what it would look like curly or in a beehive.
13. Do your make up. Make it look crazy or much thicker than you’d normally wear it. What would you look like as Amy Winehouse or Ke$ha? You’re in the comfort of your own home. Why not see?
14. Eat fruit. Fruit has sugars that can lift your mood. Go for the pineapple and blueberries. Or make yourself a smoothie.
15. If you have a journal, go back and read old entries. Remember all that stuff you cared about a year ago that now doesn’t matter?
16. Smile. Even if you don’t feel like it, sometimes moving the muscles in our face activates chemicals in our brains to lift our moods. Smiling when you don’t want to can actually help you feel better.
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