Drawing as a Grounding Ritual

There’s a particular kind of anxiety that doesn’t arrive like a storm. It builds like static—accumulating quietly, layer by layer, until you can’t hear yourself think. It’s not always sharp or explosive. Often, it’s background noise. And in that hum, your system starts to misfire.

This week, we explore how grounding isn’t a concept. It’s not an affirmation, a meditation, or an idea. It’s a rhythm. A repetition. A sensory act that brings your body back into coherence.

You’ll learn how to recognize when overstimulation has become your baseline, and how to use somatic drawing to create the rhythm your nervous system is craving—not to calm down, but to return.

In this episode:

– Why grounding is a physical skill, not a conceptual feeling

– How repetition builds nervous system trust

– A drawing practice to restore rhythm, presence, and inner pacing

Want to go deeper?

The extended session guides you through the body, breath, movement, and mark framework—with structured repetition that allows your system to settle. You’ll move through gestures that loop, breaths that anchor, and marks that give your nervous system a place to land.

No performance. No critique. No need to feel “ready.”

Just rhythm.

Just return.

Keep drawing,

Eileen

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