🔼: [[🛠 Pendulation Toolkit]] ##### Anchors[^1] An anchor is anything, anyone, any place that helps our [[💡 Parts|Parts]] to feel safe and secure and they can be helpful in all sorts of ways. Anchors can... - ...be internal, such as a pleasant or neutral place in the [[⭐️ Body]]. - ...be external, such an a person or object that brings us comfort. - ...be a [[🕯️ Resourcing|🕯️ Resource]] - ...be a [[💡 Meditation Anchor|meditation anchor]]. - ...be a [[🛠 Pendulation Anchor]]. - ...help with [[🕯️ Grounding]]. - ...be paired with [[🕯️ Breathwork 💨]]. It may be worthwhile to make a personal list of anchors unique to us. We can add to the list when we find or think of new ones, and it's normal for this list to change over time. It's okay to just have just one or two. ###### Social Anchors - Partners - Close friends - Trusted others - [[Support Groups]] - Pets or [[Animal Companions]] - Ancestors - Teachers ###### Physical Anchors These are wonderful for either keeping with us or making visible in our [[💡 Home]] or [[🛠 Sacred Space]], somewhere we will see them often. Also excellent for doing [[🦮 How to get to know your parts solo]]. Keeping a textured object nearby, or better yet having one we can wear, holding it, and noticing how it feels in our hand can us with [[🕯️ Grounding]] and bring mindful awareness to our [[⭐️ Body]] and sensations. - Photos - Mementos / Souvenirs / Keepsakes - Childhood relics - Particular clothes or accessories - [[🛠 Fidget Toys]] - Jewelry - A stone - Rubber band - Stress ball - [[🛠 Weighted Blanket]] ###### Locational Anchors Places we can go or think of. - Our [[💡 Home]] or [[🛠 Sacred Space]] - Somewhere at work or school or in nature or our community ###### Actionable Anchors - Looking out the window. - [[👟 Stretching]] - [[🛠 Self-Massage]] ###### Anchors in Time This might be part of our morning or evening routine, or something we look forward to. - The early morning, before the rest of the world wakes up. - At the end of the day, when work is done. - Sharing time or a meal with a friend. - Getting ready for bed. ###### Spiritual Anchors - Spiritual entities - Pets, grandparents, or other loved ones who may be no longer alive - Spiritual teachers, healers, and guides - Nature [^1]: [[📖 🟠 The Healing Trauma Program]]