Grounding
What is Grounding?
Body-based focus reduces intensity and restores present-moment awareness.
When you might feel grounding
Grounding is a specific form of soothing, which itself is a type of regulating. You might experience this feeling in situations where regulating is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define grounding.
Emotional Hierarchy
Explore Grounding on the Interactive Wheel
Use our free interactive feeling wheel to explore grounding and discover related emotions.
Open Emotional Dysregulation ADHDRelated Emotions
Your nervous system downshifts from high alert toward stability....
Emotion becomes manageable enough for deliberate action....
You hold feelings and goals together without collapsing into extremes....
You transition out of crisis mode and back into functional mode....
You reconnect with your values and priorities....
Connection, tools, or environment make regulation easier....