For when nightmares leave you anxious and disoriented. Uses grounding (5-4-3-2-1 sensory), pacing breath work, and reassurance to restore felt safety.
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For when nightmares leave you anxious and disoriented. Uses grounding (5-4-3-2-1 sensory), pacing breath work, and reassurance to restore felt safety.
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A meta-analysis of 47 trials (3,515 participants) found mindfulness meditation reduced anxiety with a clinically significant effect size of 0.38. — Goyal et al., 2014, JAMA Internal Medicine
Each session follows the ISO Principle — meeting you where you are emotionally before guiding toward calm (de Witte et al., 2020), with narration that progressively slows in pitch and pace to reduce muscle tension (Bernstein & Borkovec, 2006).
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