Help for Anxiety and Depression in Midlothian, Texas
Get Grounded: when you feel anxious
Grounding techniques can help to calm your fight-flight-freeze response and allow you to focus on what is happening in the “here and now”.
What are you feeling right now?
If it’s difficult to label what you're feeling, you can use this feeling wheel to help.
Before beginning, your grounding exercise, ask yourself:
On a scale from 1 - 10 (10 is the worst and 1 is the least), where is my _______(list your feeling word) right now?
Write it down in your journal.
After completing your grounding exercise, check-in with yourself again:
On a scale from 1 - 10 (10 is the worst and 1 is the least), where is my _______(list your feeling word) right now?
Write it down in your journal.
Pay attention to how you are feeling now and write about your experience in your journal.
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Amy Standifer, MA, LPC
Owner/Therapist
Free Resources for Anxiety, worry & Depression
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”