Hey guys welcome back preview lines this is Sarah and Whitney so we're going to do another toolbox because us moms we need tools in our toolbox

and give us glue give us scissors, give us live, now give us our mental tool bar.

Okay, so I'm going to tell myself and say,

I use this tool from Whitney because I texted her and told her I cannot do

Carline with baby James screaming. Yeah it's overwhelming. Like I literally was physically sweating he was screaming. I'm like I'm sure people next to us is hearing my child think like he's being murdered. He's not he's just strapped in a car seat and he's mad waiting for his big brother.

Yeah.

So can you share what you told me to do?

Sure. So whenever you're kind of in that sensory overload,

as moms, most of our sensory overload comes from visual and auditory input. Yeah because we're con I mean from the minute we get up we're always seeing things we're always hearing things

So when you're at a place where you're just kind of at your

wit's end and you need to ground yourself a little bit instead of using the

grounding thoughts that we've talked about, I want you to do a tactile grounding.

So what that means is I want you to touch something, taste something, smell something.

So like Sarah's example, she was in the car, you know, there's not a whole lot you can do. I felt like a trapped animal there for a second. So let's just be real, there's probably not a ton of food in your car where you can do a

taste tactile grounding thing touch well you're already used to touching the

steering well like none of those are sensations that can kind of get you out of that moment. But thanks COVID for this, you

probably have some sanitizer in your car. Yeah. More often than not you have sanitizer

in your car, maybe some lotion in your car, something like that.

I would want you to open that up and just breathe it in.

And that's what I did.

And I know it sounds.

You're like, okay, no, it works.

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