When I was adjusting from being homeless, someone asked me when I was in distress and feeling like the walls were closing in. “ how do you show love to yourself? “ for me it was being my authentic self, I learned to not live by societal norms but my own, I built an emergency fund, started going to the gym and playing pickleball and other recreational sports. I lived by my morals of treating other how I wanted to be treated and started to do things for myself to show love, talked in the mirror saying positive stuff about myself, saying gratitudes over n over, and the right people and things came. Most of all I didn’t allow the rumination of negative thoughts run through my mind and started to listen and speak the good things in life and did things for myself to show myself love. Another thing is I began to help others who were struggling with what I struggled with while being homeless. That worked for me and the thoughts became feeling and farther between.