For me, it consisted of, when those feelings came up, literally sitting down and acknowledging what I was feeling. (It was intense grief for me at the time.) I would cry and cry, but not try to make the feeling bigger OR smaller. Just reminding myself that it would pass, everything would be ok, it's going to be ok. I encouraged myself not to panic and try to do anything about the feeling (no scrambling to reach out to my T immediately, which was my instinct by that point; no trying to stop it via SI; no trying to plan in my head some way to 'fix it.') I had to let go of the idea of fixing it and just feel it.

Then, I would guide myself through comforting things...lots of gentle speaking to myself. Coaxing my own self through "get something to eat, take a bath, let's put on a funny show, it's going to be ok."