Grounding
I’ve previously explored trauma and mental illness, but I had never explored healthy coping mechanisms. As I learned about more forms of therapy, I felt it was important to start expressing what treatment in mental illness looks like, not just what the low points look like. The 54321 grounding exercise is a technique that is very helpful for grounding and calming from anxiety and dissociation.
This technique is special to me because I was able to recommend it to someone who had never heard of it before and it was the most effective method she had ever tried for grounding from dissociation. I was interested in communicating this technique in a very easy to follow format so that it could be referenced in those moments of urgency and hopefully help many others.
