Articles about Grounding
14 free articles, newest first. Every one is a few minutes long, written in plain language, and open to everyone with no account.
Making Yourself a Box of Things That Help
In a bad hour you cannot think of a single thing that helps. So decide while you are calm and put the answers in a box your worst hour can find, built around your senses.
Arriving Home With No Memory of the Drive
You park the car and cannot account for the last twenty minutes. The everyday end of dissociation: what that blank stretch of road is, when it is ordinary, when to…
Losing Chunks of Time
An hour is gone and you cannot say what you did with it. Why dissociation drops stretches of time, how to tell the ordinary kind from the kind worth checking, and…
The Foggy Hour After You Come Back
The spaced-out feeling has passed and you are wrung out, slow, and vaguely ashamed. What the hour after dissociation needs, what makes it worse, and how to use it…
When Everything Feels Too Loud
The strip lights, the radio, somebody chewing, three people needing you at once. What sensory overload is, how to get out of it quickly, and how to have fewer of these…
Letting a Good Moment Register
The nice things pass in seconds and the worries stay all day. A small, practical habit for letting good moments actually land, and why it is not positive thinking.
Panic on the Highway
The lane goes on, there is no exit, and your body decides this is an emergency. What is happening when panic arrives in the car, and how to get your driving back.
Waking at Three in the Morning
You are awake, your heart is going, and every problem looks unsolvable. Why the small hours are the worst possible time to think, and what to do instead of lying there.
A Five-Minute Reset Between Two Hard Things
A difficult call ends and the next one starts in four minutes. What to do with those minutes so the first one does not bleed into the second.
When Panic Hits Somewhere You Cannot Leave
On a plane, in a tunnel, mid-meeting: panic is hardest where escape is not an option. What to do with your body and your attention when you have to stay in the seat.
Walking When You Do Not Want to Be in Your Head
Not exercise, not a step count. A walk taken specifically because thinking has stopped being useful. How to use one deliberately when you are stuck, spiraling, or flat.
How to Get Through a Party You Are Dreading
The invitation has been sitting there and the day has arrived. A practical plan for before, during, and after, so the evening costs you less than the dread suggests it…
Coming Back When You Feel Far Away
The room goes flat, sounds come from a distance, and you feel like you are watching yourself from outside.
Five Ways to Come Back to the Present When Anxiety Spikes
Grounding is not about calming down. It is about getting your attention out of the future and back into the room. Five techniques, and why each one works.