If a grounding practice is not trauma-informed, it might be re-traumatizing.

The healing community teaches and offers grounding practices that are not always trauma-informed.

Often there isn’t much choice. There might not be an awareness of the nervous system. Teachers might employ mindset work and spiritual bypassing techniques in the hopes that folks will power through or transcend their discomfort.

If you are someone who has experienced trauma, you might struggle with these techniques and practices, and without a trauma-informed practitioner, you might internalize the challenges you experience. You might feel like a failure. You might feel hopeless. You might feel like you are doing it wrong when big feelings or sensations come up, when you feel agitated or panicked or trapped and you don’t feel more grounded.

If you have tried meditation, breathing practices, spiritual rituals, earthing, affirmations – and you were promised they would be grounding and bring you peace, and they did not — this is not your fault. You might just not have found the right practice for you. You might need a practice that is more sensitive, compassionate, nervous system centered, and trauma-informed.

You deserve to experience grounding practices that work for you. For your body and abilities. For your nervous system and its needs. For the capacity you hold in your current state of being. And with respect to the brilliant ways you have survived (with some adaptive strategies that can’t just be mindsetted or meditated away) as well as your agency, sovereignty, and inner wisdom.

For more insight about trauma-informed grounding, learn more about our experiential course, Find Your Ground.