What is Grounding?
Grounding is about bringing your attention back to the here‑and‑now, especially when overwhelmed, anxious, or pulled into bad memories.
Grounding is about bringing your attention back to the here‑and‑now, especially when overwhelmed, anxious, or pulled into bad memories.
A growth-mindset treats relationship conflict as something to “learn from” and “work on together”. This tends to keep things “real”.
Hormones are tiny chemical messengers that travel in your blood and tell different parts of your body what to do and when to do it.
Relationship conflict is when two or more people’s needs, views, or feelings clash and they struggle to find a fair way forward.
Environmental safety needs are the things people require in their surroundings so they can live, work, and move without constant danger.
Traumatic flashbacks are moments when a past experience feels as if it is happening again right now, even though you are actually safe.
Worrying is what happens when the mind keeps running “what if?” stories about the future, usually about bad things that might happen.
Impulsiveness is when you act quickly, often automatically, without giving yourself enough time to think things through.
Self-acceptance is treating yourself as basically “okay as a person,” even when you see your flaws, mistakes, and limits.
Stressors are the things that put pressure, or stress, on a person’s mind or body and trigger a stress response.