Your best re-grounding tips? 🪲 💎
Hello everyone! 👋🏼
So happy this space exists!! I'd be so interested in your best tips for regulation / re-grounding during burnout, or after a difficult experience (like a social event, or the dreaded grocery store!). There are a bunch of things I try to do, but it can take forever - hours, days, or even longer. What are your thoughts?
Thank youuu! Hj (they/them) ✨
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Oooh, this is so great, thank you!! 👍
That's so interesting about the ice pack! 🤔 My partner has a knee one, and I tested it out recently purely because I was interested in what the sensory experience might be like - kinda weighted, soft, cold, smooth - I actually LOVED it, but I never considered getting my own! Maybe I should try a migraine one! (I do actually get migraines a lot too, why have I never tried this?)
Headphones: I have tried so many different combinations of headphones and ear plugs. I've spent so much money but have never found the right thing for me. They just hurt! I'd be super curious about the brand...?
Oh my gosh, I'm 45 I've honestly only admitted to myself that I have to do nothing the day after events in the last couple of years (less?!). It's so hard when societal norms brand this as 'lazy.' It's honestly a trigger for me. I was called lazy SO much growing up. I know I'm not (quite the opposite!), but it's taken me decades to (as you say) be "kind to myself"! Thank you for the validation 🥺
As for what works... it's been a long journey, and still learning. Most of the time I'm able to accept that "doing nothing" is NOT "nothing," and that it's healthy healing. I like to try to be in the sun, read simple fiction or poetry, if I'm up to it. Looking at rainbows (prisms cast on my walls) makes my brain really happy and calm! And I try to lean into softness, and the familiar: stuffies, videos, food, what ever feels comforting.
It sounds simple written down. But it's such a daily life-long lesson isn't it!!
Thank you ✊