Mindfullness & Grounding practices
One of the most powerful practices I’ve personally implemented in my life has been mindfulness and various grounding techniques.
All the other tools I’ve used have been extremely helpful and necessary, but to truly reach the root of my inner world, I had to start by feeling what was happening in my body. Like many of you reading this, I was living in survival mode—stuck in my mind and disconnected from how I truly felt. And to change anything, I had to begin feeling.
Through Compassionate Inquiry and Internal Family Systems, I started to understand the hidden mechanisms shaping my life—the subconscious drivers behind the behaviors and situations I was choosing.
However, for both of these modalities to work, it’s essential to become aware of sensations and feelings in the body.
But here’s the question: how do you learn to feel if your body has never felt safe?
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What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the art of becoming aware of the present moment, this exact moment.
It is not the same as meditation. It is a state of being. It is the practice of continually returning to the here and now—letting go of the past, releasing worry about the future, and noticing when you have disconnected so you can gently return to the present.
You can use meditation to cultivate mindfulness, or you can begin with grounding practices. These come in many forms: spending time in nature, mindfully drinking tea, or slowly befriending the different sensations in your body.
Grounding practices help us land in the now and guide us toward truly feeling what is happening within. They help us understand how much space we actually have in any given moment. And this is essential.
If you do not know how much space you have, how can you know what to do next?
Maybe you need to cancel that meeting.
Maybe you need silence.
Maybe you are okay.
But if you are not aware, it becomes easy to override your boundaries and deny your system what it truly needs.
To work with trauma, anxiety, depression, or any emotional or mental state, we first have to learn how these states feel. Not just think about them or analyze them with the mind. And this takes time, one has to slowly feel safe in the body.
Can you do a grounding practice, notice a tightness or lightness in your body, and simply be with it?
Can you zoom out and check in with your emotional state—maybe anxiety, or even joy?
How does that emotion feel in your body?
Can you sit with it, without needing to explain it or figure it out?
All emotions are energy, and energy needs to move.
When we suppress emotions, they become stagnant. And when that energy becomes stuck, it can feel deeply uncomfortable. Often, we try to escape this discomfort by distracting ourselves, staying busy, or numbing.
When you work with me, we start gently.
We explore grounding practices, always at your pace, in your own time.
This helps you begin to feel safe in your body. And from that place of safety, you will be able to meet whatever emotions arise.
This ability is a real superpower, something you can carry into every part of your life. It gives you access to your own truth. It helps you stay connected to what is actually present, instead of what your mind wants to explain or avoid.