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One thing, tough question. I think there's a lot of things you can do, but one thing that I feel like is super important is get off social media. Put your phone down, delete the apps, get outside, connect with nature, touch the grass, go for a walk, do some mindfulness, find connection, get one with nature, and experience what life has to offer. We're all visiting this earth. We have an opportunity to soak in its beauty, and our phone is not beauty. The world has so many wonders that so much of us will never see, but on the screen. So put it down, go experience it, take a chance.

I think one is journaling, right? That really helps you increase your insight and awareness, and it's very introspective, to honestly take a really good inventory of yourself. And I say two, because I wear it around my neck all the time and I believe that it really saved me: positive affirmations. Start affirming yourselves. Oftentimes it's so easy, whether it's from familial environment or societal, but a lot of people have that toxic shame. So they criticize themselves. They're very critical of themselves. We're our own worst critics, often. And one thing that I tell my clients is that your inner critic, its only job is to break you down, right? And it takes on this villain role. And so for any villain, what do you need? You need a hero. And so what I do is I try to empower them through affirmations and core values and things like that. I try to empower them to know that they can be the hero. I don't care what you name yourself, be the hero. And what that means is you need an arsenal. You need weapons, right? You need a tool belt, and affirmations go in there, and they go a long way. Because when you're internally hearing these negative things, you have to fight it with positive things.