We all know that a sunny spring day, a hot cup of tea or a beautifully bloomed flower can spark joy, but now there’s a term to define the impact these simple things can have on our mental health – glimmers.
Glimmers, which are amassing hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok, thousands of posts on Instagram and are being touted by TikTok therapists as an important grounding technique, are cues that bring us back to calmness. They can be many different things, from a cute animal to a smell or a happy place in our mind, but what they have in common is they make us feel happy and present in every moment.
