How to Take Responsibility for Yourself

We need to first recognize the stress response. How does that stress response show up for you in your body? So I want you to consider that viscerally, do you get a knot in your stomach? Does your neck get tense? Do you bloom red in the face? And second, we want to help ourselves by lowering our physiological arousal. One of the best ways to do that is taking deep slow breaths. Another really helpful skill is grounding, according to the five senses, right? so you're paying attention to what am I seeing? What am I hearing? It helps you to kind of get out of that vortex of your brain and your body and actually focus on the situation at