Gather in your support people. If you don't have
any, then go find some, re-connect with friends and family you've not
had contact with for awhile.
Add resources. Go search online for
information, read books recommended by me or someone you have reason to
believe might know a good one when they see it. Hire a coach or a
therapist.
Add reserves. Have more than enough of what you
need, time, money, rest, sleep, good food, clean air, pleasure. Begin
where you are and build it in.
Have someone who can help if you
need help. Someone to call if you're stranded. Carry pepper spray, get
a cell phone for the car and your bedside. Add dead bolt locks and
window locks to your house, even on upper floors, so you can open the
window a little for ventilation and know it's not making you vulnerable
to do so. Get towing insurance, have money hidden in the car so if you
ran out you'd have a backup.
It frees you up, makes you spend
less of your emotional energy on feeling at the end of your resources,
it reduces vulnerability, which drains personal energy. And it tells
you that you care about you, that you'll take good care of you. It's a
message you've been needing to hear for a long time.
Be very nice to you. You deserve the very best. Give it to you.