Falling is allowed. Just don’t forward your mail to the floor.

There is a difference between going down and moving in. Falling is normal and mostly unavoidable, and nobody is keeping score of how often it happens. What changes your life is how long you stay there, because staying turns an event into an address.

Give yourself a set stretch to feel bad in, a night or a weekend, and mean it. When it ends, do one small thing that belongs to the version of you that is standing. Making your bed counts. So does opening the assignment.