I've been dwelling on your comment all day. I used to wear all copper cuffs, but I broke those, too, which is why I primarily switched to beads, because at least I could restring those. But a spiral of hammered copper is poking my brain like a great focusing idea. If I could keep it from snagging on everything, lol.
The "my energy expands when I feel safe" thing, though - not to get into it too much, but that's been a suspicion for a while because of a long story kinda reason, but I've been struggling to try and figure out how to feel safe enough all the time, on purpose. I'm better than I used to be, in a lot of ways - my anxiety levels have ratcheted WAY down and I no longer have to cocoon myself away in a cave like I used to in order to relax (like, I couldn't sleep without being in a bedroom with a locked door, even when it was just me and the cats in my own apartment. Now I sleep in the living room and doors never shut inside for the most part). But I still can't get to where I know I can be. Hmm. Ideas are baking. Thanks for the prompt.