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BACK TO CALM

Ways Back to Calm

(When Your Nervous System is Overwhelmed)

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FEELING FRAYED or FRAZZLED?  OR JUST LOOKING TO DEVELOP A BIT MORE CHILL?

There are so many different things that can help us move ourselves back to CALM. You know that place where we are safe, grounded, connected to ourselves, others, and our lives (affectionally termed “FLOCK” and sometimes “rest & digest”).

Importance of Our Nervous System STATE

Most of us have some knowledge and understanding of the nervous system and stress, and how too much of it, for too long, can impact us negatively.

In reality, our nervous system STATE at any given time and overall, has a considerable and global impact on all aspects of our functioning. 

Our nervous system STATE impacts:

  • self-awareness
  • flexibly thinking
  • problem solving
  • attention
  • memory
  • judgement
  • learning
  • growing through mistakes
  • creativity
  • empathy
  • compassion
  • perspective taking
  • communication
  • connection to others
  • moods
  • knowing own feelings and being able to move through them
  • coping
  • self-talk
  • locus on control
  • outlook on life
  • motivation
  • sense of empowerment
  • energy levels
  • sleep quality
  • body tension
  • digestion

The point is that we have many very good reasons to want to get out a state of anxiety, overwhelm or shut down as fast as we can.

It doesn’t feel good, and it impacts pretty much everything. 

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What’s In the Guide

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The Practices were compiled through various trainings, while working to support healthcare staff, managers and executives as they weathered the prolonged stress throughout the COVID 19 pandemic and in counselling individuals with dysregulated nervous systems who are recovering from toxic stress, trauma or complex trauma.

 

The 12 page Guide includes:

 

Some simple things to keep in mind. 

 

25 Practices for Finding Your Way to Calm.  Includes top down and bottom up practices. 

 

A 1 page overview of the Main Nervous System States.  If you want to better understand what’s happening in your brain and body.. 

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Sample pages.

Benefits of Having More Ways Back to CALM 

Most of us have a least a few practices we use here and there.

And there are major benefits to having some more tools in our toolbox.  

We can find a practice that works well when we need it. 

We can find practices that we actually like doing. 

We can stack practices if we’re really stressed because we have more in our toolbox. 

We can increase our overall coping.

We can improve our interoception (internal awareness of  nervous system state) as we experience calming practices.

We can use practices to slowly recover a frayed nervous system. 

We can expand our inner knowing or how to return ourselves to CALM. 

We can use regular practices to increase our overall window of tolerance, which means we can handle more stress before our nervous system moves into protection. 

If you think you might have reached the point of toxic stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, or trauma, it is wise to engage the help of a trained recovery counsellor.