Are you going through a stressful time? Maybe a traumatic time?  Anxious? Uptight? Triggered? Panicked? Attacked?
Here are some suggestions. This is something I use. Not often do I use all of these things at once. First there is no time to sit and go through this thoroughly in one sitting. Second, well when you are face down in the mud, it’s enough just to look up sometimes. It is hit and miss, I grab onto one as I can.

Stretch
– sitting in your chair, where ever you are
-roll your head gently, slowly
-close your eyes
– think of each body part and pushing the stress out and bringing in peace and soothing
-breathe, 4 seconds in through your nose, hold 4 seconds, out 4 seconds through your mouth

Write it out of you
-Scribble/write fast/ angry if that’s where you are emotionally all the words that come to mind. They can be one on top of the other so people around you can’t see what you are writing. The point is not to read this, but to dump. Not sentences just single words/short phrases.
-could do this with eyes closed
-write till you stop.

Fill in the good
-choose a meaningful verse to you
(some examples: John 16:33, Isaiah 41:10, I Peter 5:10, II Chronicles 15:7, Psalm 29:11, Psalm 46:1-3, Ps 46:10, Joshua 1:9)
-if you can’t muster a verse, or can’t get to your Bible, or, are just too angry to go there….put in a good thought, a (one) peaceful word, a good memory
-if you are just not there either, listen for a bird singing, look at the sky, look at a joyful picture that is close by, smell or hold a piece of fruit

Does CM have any thoughts on the subject? Why, of course, she does!
Here are some things for you to ponder-maybe at a different time, maybe another day…

“We want a new start: we are sick of ourselves and of knowing in advance how we shall behave and how we shall feel on all occasions; the change we half-unconsciously desire is to other aims, other ways of looking at things. We feel that we are more than there is room for; other conditions might give us room; we don’t know; any way, we are uneasy. These are two or three of the secret matters that oppress us, and we are in need of a philosophy which shall deal with such things of the spirit. We believe we should be able to rise to its demands, however exigeant, for the failure is not in us or in human nature so much as in our limited knowledge of conditions.” – Volume 6 p.335

“We do not consider enough that the nourishment, rest, fresh air and natural exercise, proper for the body as a whole, meet the requirements of the nervous system and that the undue nervous tension which a small child [mother] suffers in carrying a cup of tea, an older boy or girl in cramming for an examination, [caring for little ones incessant cries, discovering and learning how to forgive deep wounds] may be the cause later [today] of a distressing nervous breakdown. We are becoming a nervous, overstrained nation and though golf and cricket [social media, shopping, antidepressants] may do something for us, a watchful education [thoughts put into her mind], alert to arrest every symptom of nervous over-pressure, would do much to secure for every child [woman] a fine physique and a high degree of staying power.” – Volume 6 p.48

“But the general conclusion remains, that for men and women of all ages, all classes, and all complexions of mind, Letters [words, quality written words, Living written words] are an imperative and daily requirement to satisfy that universal mind-hunger, the neglect of which gives rise to emotional disturbances, and, as a consequence, to evils that dismay us.” – Volume 6 p.333

“And, indeed, “that way madness lies” for every one of us, in the persistent preying of any one train of thought upon the brain tissue. Pride, resentment, jealousy, an invention that a man has laboured over, an opinion he has conceived, any line of thought which he has no longer the power to divert, will endanger a man’s sanity.”  – Volume 1 p.115

“Any sequence of mental action which has been frequently repeated, tends to perpetuate itself; so that we find ourselves automatically prompted to think, feel, or do what we have been before accustomed to think, feel, or do, under like circumstances, without any consciously formed purpose or anticipation of results….every state of ideational consciousness which is either very strong or is habitually repeated, leaves an organic impression on the cerebrum…” – Volume 1 p.116

Please do not hear this as more ‘should’s’ to add to your already full plate. Rather it is meant as suggestions as you are capable. If you are in the throws of a situation that has you emotionally bleeding, do not add more to your list. Grab from these suggestions what you can as a life-preserver. Today, take the little that you can to stay afloat. There is nothing wrong with taking a little. Grab onto more if you need it as you have strength.