The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Exercise I Use During Panic Attacks

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hey Sistren,

Recently I made a huge decision that can potentially change the course of my life. When I tell you this decision had me shook, yall! I ended up getting a bit anxious, ok, super anxious and this led to me having a panic attack.

In this episode I'm sharing:

- How long I've had anxiety and panic attacks

- How going into fight/flight/freeze mode can be helpful but also harmful

-What my anxiety attacks personally feel like

- The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise I use to calm down and center myself

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, what's going on, sister and you are listening to the Brown Girl
0:04.0	Self Care podcast. Thank you so much for pressing play on this episode. My name is
0:09.0	Bree and I am the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl
0:13.9	Self Care, a site and podcast committed to the wellness and self-care of black
0:22.2	women. So on this show, I and sometimes guests talk about Indian everything
0:28.5	relevant to our self-care and to us not only surviving but also thriving in a
0:36.6	world that centers the wellness of whites. So happy Monday, we had the fourth of
0:46.8	July holiday on Sunday or over the weekend and I don't necessarily
0:53.5	celebrate it, but yeah, you know, it's a day of barbecue and being outside and
1:02.4	all that good stuff. So hopefully you had a good weekend. I want to go ahead and
1:07.6	get into this episode where we or I actually will be talking about anxiety and
1:12.8	my experience with anxiety and panic attacks as well as I'll be sharing a
1:19.0	grounding exercise that I do religiously when I have or kind of go into this
1:24.7	panic mode and it's the five, four, three, two, one exercise which you may or may
1:30.8	not already be familiar with, but I want to talk about that. But before I do, I
1:36.0	want to make sure that I shout out in case you're not aware, I am planning a
1:41.6	event for black women. It's called a collective day, excuse me, a day of
1:47.4	collective rest for black women and so far we've had over 800 women sign up
1:54.1	saying yes, I am on board, I am going to be taking this day off in honor of my
2:00.8	wellness and honor of my self-care. So if you'd like to go ahead and join us, make
2:05.4	sure that you go to www.browngirlsselfcare.com forthslashrest to get more
2:13.5	details on that and to sign up for that. Okay, and that actually is going to be
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