Getting Back Inside the Window

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Companion Slides

Grounding, breathing, and co-regulation — practical tools to return to the window.

Key Concepts

  • Grounding: 5-4-3-2-1 sensory technique
  • Box breathing: 4 counts in, hold, out, hold
  • Co-regulation: borrowing someone else's calm nervous system
  • Movement: walking, stretching, gentle rocking
  • The goal is not to eliminate distress — it's to widen the window

Part of

Module 1: Foundations

What trauma is, how it works in the brain, what the ACE study tells us, and why resilience matters.