Anxiety Grounding Techniques Revisited | Episode 292

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

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You’re in the middle of a huge wave of intense anxiety and fear, or maybe you’re experiencing a full blown panic attack. Someone with all the best intentions and trying to be helpful instructs you to identify five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste.

This is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise. If you’ve followed along with me for any length of time you know that I don’t speak too kindly about grounding exercises. But today we’re going to revisit 5-4-3-2-1 and grounding exercises in general.
What if there is a way to use them to our benefit rather than having them blow up in our faces?
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Chapters

1. Reframing Grounding Exercises for Anxiety (00:00:00)

2. Recovery Lessons (00:13:59)