Coping Skills and Videos

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,…

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I think sometimes we have the incorrect assumption that feelings need to be acted upon, in the moment. This ignores that feelings are valid, but not always accurate to the situation. Feelings may be misplaced, as when we get angry at our partner because of…