AI Answer
It sounds like you are recognizing the importance of self-compassion and self-support in your journey. It's important to acknowledge your own discomfort and be kind and nurturing to yourself, like being your own wise, loving parent. Practicing mindfulness, meditation, journaling, and inner child healing are all great ways to support yourself. It's also essential to not be too hard on yourself and to allow yourself to feel everything you need to feel, rather than simply putting a band-aid on your emotions. Connecting with others who can understand your experiences can also be valuable. Keep up the self-sufficiency and self-care - you're doing great!

GDL Zahra

I mean , I was um and I'm still not 100% yet , but I'm getting better every day . We talked about affirmations and like looking at yourself , like even putting a picture of like a picture of you as a kid in the mirror and talking to that child and just saying , yeah , like I wasn't ok , but I'm gonna get better every day . And I think , you know , switching up my nutrition , like not drinking coffee , going to like some , some macha maybe , um , because I was having some intense panic attacks , like even driving here , even though it brought me , it brings me so much joy to be here , but it was just , I was by myself and I'm in the car and like all the thoughts start just like flooding me .

GDL Zahra

So I think after COVID , my , my clients , my , my family , my friends myself , uh I wrote the book during COVID because I realized life is so precious . And I need to understand what I could provide for myself because as a therapist , I mean , Michelle you myself , we are human and , and I have days that I'm just in the ground crying and II I get myself up one minute at a time , you know , and it's journaling . It's all in the book , mindfulness , meditation , walking , moving my body , listening to good music and just acknowledging my own discomfort at that moment , that's rep parenting is because as a man or a woman , it doesn't matter our caregivers , my mom , your mom , I'm not judging anybody because they knew what they knew and we are here to just embrace the change and be the change .

GDL Zahra

And I need to understand what I could provide for myself because as a therapist , I mean , Michelle you myself , we are human and , and I have days that I'm just in the ground crying and II I get myself up one minute at a time , you know , and it's journaling . It's all in the book , mindfulness , meditation , walking , moving my body , listening to good music and just acknowledging my own discomfort at that moment , that's rep parenting is because as a man or a woman , it doesn't matter our caregivers , my mom , your mom , I'm not judging anybody because they knew what they knew and we are here to just embrace the change and be the change . And II , I tell my clients , you know what , it's ok for you to fall apart , but it's not ok for you to wait for people to come put you back together .

GDL Zahra

I mean , but you know , it's , it's just human needs and , and , and we need to handle what's going on and really have a community or people , family , friends , professionals to help us to gain the confidence we need so we could help ourselves when the professionals are not around . And honestly , that's all we've been doing some deep breathing , some repenting , some inner child healing , some prayers , meditation , journaling . It's a combination of , it's like a Disneyland .

GDL Zahra

And there are tools in this book that could help anybody . So if I'm hearing this right , it's like you want to become aware of the bleeding within yourself because once you have the awareness , then it's now you can take care of it definitely consciousness , awareness , acknowledgement and then making basic choices , like nurturing your inner child that needs help because sometimes we could be just really , really , really tired . We just need to take a nap .