Give Yourself Some (Psychological) Distance

Psychological distancing refers to “kind of a perspective broadening”. After gaining some distance from a stressor we’re often better equipped to reengage:

• linguistic distancing - a technique that involves analyzing your situation from a third-person perspective, like a close friend would, and activating self-compassion;
• temporal distancing, which involves imagining how you’ll feel about a current stressor sometime off in the future, perhaps a year from now, after it’s passed.