What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

‘ Count your blessings, Love ‘. The last words my mom said to me before she passed away. I do this, often and deeply. Acutely aware that so many folk worldwide are leading a truly horrific existence.

It’s not a strategy that works in lifting myself out of the rabbit hole though, just makes me cross with myself, that I couldn’t be more grateful.

So, down the rabbit hole I stay. I sit and I wait. Eventually it becomes light. Light enough to make my way back up and into the world….and I sit and I wait and I breathe. It’s quiet and I wait…The sun passes from behind a cloud and warms my face. A solitary robin watches me. His song tells me it is the start of a new day and I must embrace the moment. For I am lucky. I have blessings to count.