Learn how to recognize dysregulation and respond with grounding, supportive actions.
Build confidence identifying what you need when emotions feel overwhelming or activating.
Strengthen your ability to return to clarity after emotional or nervous system distress.
A Grounded Response Guide
This handout offers a simple, accessible framework for meeting yourself with care during moments of emotional or nervous system dysregulation. Structured as a three-step flow, it first supports awareness, before gently inviting perspective and self-inquiry. The final step centers practical, embodied needs, encouraging actions that restore safety and grounding such as movement, connection, or soothing sensory support. Designed to be used in the moment or revisited afterward, the handout helps individuals move out of overwhelm and back into choice. Readers leave with a clear, repeatable process that builds self-trust, emotional regulation, and the capacity to return to challenging situations once grounded and resourced.
About Breelove.ca
This resource, like all offerings in our digital library, was co-created by the Breelove collective: a team of culturally rooted, trauma-informed practitioners, drawing from real moments in real healing spaces. At Breelove.ca, we offer more than care, we create it in community. Our practice centers Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, and other marginalized communities in the Maritimes, while holding space for all bodies throughout Turtle Island and Canada. Our approach combines clinical counselling with community wisdom: trauma-informed support, anti-oppressive frameworks, and real tools for emotional resilience. We offer 1:1 therapy, live support groups, self-paced healing courses, digital downloads like this one, and a free online community where you’re never expected to heal alone. Because we believe that we each deserve to be well, and to be witnessed as we get there.
Download the handout now to support grounding, clarity, and self-responsive care during moments of emotional dysregulation.
This trauma-informed handout offers a clear, compassionate process you can return to anytime supporting regulation, self-trust, and practical next steps without overwhelm.
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