Hey guys, welcome back to Privy Alliance. It's Sarah and Whitney. Okay, so this is

Toolbox Christmas holiday edition. That's right and here we are in our festive shirts. We're so

ready for this. Okay we know you moms love the toolbox episodes just like we do

because we need tools like builders to navigate and handle it.

That's right.

Whitney, I'm going to give you some situations.

We're going to talk through some things

and you're going to give us tools.

Okay, let's do it.

Okay, we're at a family event. Hello, what we're doing.

All the things. Very overwhelmed. Yeah, fair enough. How can we ground ourselves in a closed space, lots of family, lots of opinions, what's good grounding techniques we can talk about?

So one thing, always that deep breathing kind of in through the nose, out there at the mouth,

we don't have to make a big dramatic of it's just hey if you

want to and be like hey by the way this is how you all should learn to debrief

exactly let me demonstrate for you as you stand to carve the turkey. That's right.

So just and just into the nose out through the mouth, you know, and another thing you can

always just dart into the restroom if you need to splash water on your face, get that on your pulse points on your wrist if you need to splash water on your face get that on your pulse

points on your wrist if you need to hopefully there's some soap in the bathroom

to do our tactile grounding so you can even just breathe in the scent of soap yes

chances are there's a Christmas candle somewhere so even just breathing in the scent of soap. Yes.

Chances are there's a Christmas candle somewhere.

So even getting closer to a candle and breathing in that scent.

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