Coping Skills and Videos

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…

  In previous posts we have gone over grounding using smell, taste, sight, and touch. Today we will go over cognitive grounding. Grounding skills help reorient you to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with anxiety, flashbacks…

In previous posts we have gone over grounding using smell, taste, and touch. Today we will go over grounding by sight. Grounding skills help reorient you to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with anxiety, flashbacks and…

Grounding skills help reorient a person to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with anxiety, flashbacks and dissociation. A powerful way to help ground is through the use of smell. However, it is important to be aware…

Grounding skills help ground us into the reality of the here-and-now. This can be useful if triggers bring us into a past traumatic memory, and can reconnect us to our bodies if we get dissociated, numbed out or frozen. Look around in your current, present…

It has been a while since I posted about grounding skills, and I thought they might be especially useful right now. Grounding skills are things that can help ground us into the reality of the here-and-now. This is a useful skill to have when triggers…