You're in the middle of a huge wave of intense anxiety and fear, or maybe you're experiencing a full-blown panic attack.

Someone with all the best intentions and trying to be helpful instructs you to identify five things you can see, four things you can touch,

three things you can hear, two things you can smell and one thing you can taste.

This is the five, four, three,43-21 grounding exercise.

If you followed along with me for any length of time,

you know that I don't speak too kindly about grounding exercises.

But today, we're going to revisit 5-434321 and grounding exercises in general.

What if there is a way to use them to our benefit rather than having them accidentally

sort of blow up in our faces?

Let's get to it on episode 292 of the blow up in our faces. Let's get to it on episode

292 of the anxious truth this is episode

292 of the podcast recorded in May of 2024 I'm Drew Lin Salata creator and host of the 2024. I'm Drew Lynn Salata, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. I'm a therapist in training with a

specialization in anxiety and anxiety disorders, an author, an educator, and podcaster in the

anxiety and mental health community, and a former suff in the anxiety and mental health community and a former sufferer of

anxiety disorders and depression on and off for many years of my life so I'm not

speaking just based on academic knowledge or training, but also from personal experience.

If this is your first time here listening to the podcast or watching on YouTube, well, welcome.

I hope you find the content useful in some way, and if you do do maybe consider adding the podcast to your

library a favorite podcast or maybe subscribing to the YouTube channel of course if you're

a returning listener or viewer welcome back I'm glad you're here this week and I hope

you find it helpful.

Of course before we get started I'd also like to remind you quickly that the

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