self holding exercise

Someone recently posted a bunch of self care practices to Metafilter. The whole list can be found here; I haven't gone through all of them, but I've looked at a couple and found them pretty darn great.

The one I keep sharing out to folks, though, is this Self Holding Exercise. It's explicitly targeted at folks with PTSD, but you don't have to be dealing with PTSD to find it very kind, peaceful, and healing. I'm used to holding myself gently in my thoughts, but it hadn't ever occurred to me that I can also hold myself gently in a physical sense.

A+++ would self hold again.