I dissociate, I dissociate a lot and when I get stressed I dissociate even more. It’s a real problem and it got a lot worse over the pandemic.
Ok, it’s not a problem when I go to the dentist, at the dentist it’s actually massively useful because then I don’t freak out about the horrible things happening in my mouth.
Yoga each morning is brilliant, yoga pulls me into my body in much the same as as breathing exercises can do. I am located in my body and I am concentrating on that body doing things. For someone who has always been very in touch with my body the sheer amount that I have been absent from it over the last three years is terrifying.