Feeling overwhelmed is common due to personal, national, and global crises. While these feelings can lead to a sense of numbness or hopelessness, engaging in grounding practices can mitigate distress. Such actions, including mindfulness and soothing techniques, do not erase your feelings but help you remain present and take meaningful actions. This article by Lizabeth Roemer and Josh Bartok illustrates that, even amid uncertainty, it’s crucial to find ways to ground ourselves to improve our engagement with life.
We want to share a few suggestions of ways to ground ourselves in the midst of overwhelm, so that we can better choose effective actions and engage fully in our lives.
Our nervous systems get overwhelmed and it becomes harder to engage with our lives, so we can take time to soothe our system through gentle actions.
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