I think mine asked me to do something similarva while back when we went into something quite challenging. It was about feeling safe and not alone.
I pictured something that makes me feel safe and comforted, gives me warmth and hokds that inner child that feels so incredibly alone. For me, this image is an animal, images of my pets, and ahe even aaked me for a spiritual connection to hold on to, and thats my deceased pet. Its hard, but feeling safe and warm and comfirted worked at first.
I do,not know how to be motherly nurturing to myself, but I know we'll get there .., and I hope I can then be a littlw bit more like it.