In this blog, I’ll be talking about how to use 10 grounding techniques for dissociation. Grounding techniques are tools that you can draw on to help stop yourself from dissociating or to bring yourself back into connection with your body if you’ve started to dissociate.

Have you ever wondered what is dissociation in trauma? It’s a mechanism that happens during trauma, and it’s a symptom that happens after trauma. It happens during trauma in order to help you survive physical or psychological pain and overwhelm. It’s an automatic biological mechanism, that’s beyond your conscious control.