If you listen to my podcast or are visiting from Facebook, you know I love my grounding exercises. It's because they're such a great way to get into the present moment and stop triggers, spiraling negative thoughts, and anxiety dead in its tracks. I mean, how cool is that?

Here are some of my favorites. You may know some, but I'll bet others you haven't heard of, and I loved to use them, especially when I was going through betrayal trauma.

We'll start with the easiest one:

Automatic Negative Thoughts (aka ANTs because they can line up and march around our brain) can hinder our forward progress. I also called it my "addict voice" because it liked to whisper those negative thoughts in my ear when I was feeling BLASTed (bored, lonely, angry, stressed, tired).