
Explore a body-based grounding approach to reduce anxiety, stress, and PTSD symptoms by understanding the stress response and practicing over 20 techniques to foster inner calm.
Explore the two parts of the nervous system—sympathetic activation and parasympathetic calming—and strengthen parasympathetic dominance to feel safer, with grounding techniques to restore calm.
Use five senses grounding—touch, sight, and hearing—to trigger the parasympathetic response, calm the nervous system, and stay grounded in the present moment.
Practice grounding by creating a personal safe place to calm anxiety and trauma, using body scans, breathing, and vivid sensory imagery to stay present and feel safe.
Learn the self-regulation technique of softening the gaze to expand peripheral vision, counter tunnel vision, and calm the nervous system via the vagus nerve during stress.
Engage in a body scan mindfulness exercise to connect with present moment sensations and emotions, using paced breathing to observe and release tension from feet to head.
Everyone experiences stress and anxiety in their life, and for some people, traumatic experiences take that stress and anxiety to an even higher level in the form of PTSD or Panic Attacks.
In this course, I teach you how to turn on your body's natural calming response, the parasympathetic response, and train your mind and body to calm down, relax, and turn on the "rest, digest, and heal" response.
The Stress and Anxiety response is a natural reaction to danger and it shows up in our Body through the Fight, Flight, Freeze Response. You feel your stomach go tight, hands cold and sweaty, your heart starts beating faster and your body tenses up. This is your nervous system preparing you to fight off physical danger. But this reaction isn't helpful when you're having problems in your work, school, relationships or if you're struggling with chronic stress or anxiety. When that reaction is severe, you may develop PTSD, Panic Disorder or Anxiety disorders.
In this course you'll learn:
How your stress response works
How to turn on the calming part of your nervous system (the parasympathetic response)
Over 20 easy activities to turn on calm
Essential skills for managing Stress, Anxiety, PTSD and Panic Attacks