🕯️ IFS and Grounding

Grounding isn’t just a technique in IFS — it’s relationship with the body. It’s how Self lets the system know, We’re here now. We survived.

• A dissociating part may float away to avoid sensation.

• A panicked part may tighten every muscle to stay alert.

• A busy part may distract from stillness, afraid of what it might feel.

IFS doesn’t force grounding; it invites it.

• “Would it feel okay to notice your feet right now?”

• “Can we let the breath move without changing it?”

When protectors see that being in the body doesn’t mean danger, presence returns slowly.

Grounding stops being a technique and becomes trust — the sense that it’s safe to exist inside yourself.

In IFS, grounding is the first act of belonging. The moment the system feels the earth beneath it, it remembers: we are home again.