How Do You Tell If Your Nervous System Is Dysregulated?
Nervous system dysregulation can create a lot of stress in your body. You may not know why you are feeling the way you are and not understand that it could be your nervous system. There…
The Benefits of Online Therapy
There are many benefits to online therapy, but also some drawbacks. Studies that compared online and in-person therapy for the same type of therapy found similar rates of effectiveness. It is important to figure out…
The Benefits of Trauma Counselling
There are a number of benefits that trauma counselling, also known as trauma therapy, can bring to your life. It can help you understand why you are reacting in the way you are. Additionally, it…
How Much Trust Do I Need to Find Success in Therapy?
Please realize you do not need to completely trust your therapist to find healing.Often, people have had a lot of damage in the past due to trauma or past betrayal, and you have learned that…
Window of Tolerance
The Window of Tolerance was conceptualized by Dan Siegel to describe how people operate when they are in the optimal state of arousal versus when they are hyperaroused or hypoaroused. You can also use it…
What are Grounding Techniques?
Grounding Techniques are strategies that can calm an overactive nervous system. There are different ways of calming the nervous system. There are different types of grounding techniques. Not all of these work for everyone. You…
Grounding Techniques that Use Your Senses
Grounding Techniques that use your senses are about using your senses to regain control of your body and can help you when you are dysregulated. They can be good to help to ground you in…
Observation Grounding Techniques
Observation grounding techniques use what is in your environment to help ground you. They are beneficial grounding techniques because you can use them pretty much anywhere, and there is nothing that you need to have…
Somatic Grounding Techniques
Somatic Grounding Techniques use your body to help ground you in the present moment. They can be useful for both hyperarousal and hypoarousal. They involve using your body and touch to ground you and bring…
Breathing Grounding Techniques
Breathing grounding techniques are beneficial to help yourself feel more regulated. Furthermore, deep breathing quiets the sympathetic (fight or slight; stress response) part of the autonomic nervous system, which triggers the relaxation response of the…