Coping Skills and Videos

Touch is an important grounding skill & is available to you at all times. One way to ground is to touch one thing in your space, maybe something you’re wearing. This isn’t simply a casual touch, really focus on trying to describing what you’re feeling…

One way to ground yourself, to bring yourself back into the here-and-now, is to use your sense of smell. Smell is also a powerful memory evoker, so be mindful when choosing smells to ground yourself. Using smell is powerful, and works best if you plan…

Grounding skills help orient you to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with feeling unsafe due to anxiety, flashbacks and dissociation. Visual grounding utilizes what you can see in your current, actual environment. One way to ground…

Since I have been focusing on dissociation in my posts of late, I think it’s only appropriate to start discussing strategies for coping when you find yourself beginning to dissociation, or when you realize you’ve been dissociating. Grounding is one of the primary coping strategies…

Know that you are not alone if the holidays can evoke PTSD symptoms. This may include flashbacks to painful memories from past holidays, intrusive or unwanted thoughts about those past experiences that making being present difficult. You are not alone if you struggle with emotional…

The window of tolerance is the range in which we as humans are able to function most effectively. When the brain perceives a threat that it does not think you can fight or flee from it is likely to go into a state of collapse,…