✅ Daily Living Skills (ADLs & IADLs) *coming soon
Course overview
Lesson Overview

12.28 – Getting Sleep When You’re Overstimulated or Dissociating: When overstimulation or dissociation makes rest feel impossible, grounding through the senses reconnects you to safety. Start with slow exhalations while naming textures, colors, or sounds nearby. Weighted blankets or firm surfaces provide body awareness. Avoid bright screens and sharp noises; gentle repetitive motions like rocking or humming can restore rhythm. Dissociation fragments time perception, so steady routines anchor you in the present. Create predictable pre-sleep rituals—brushing teeth, dimming lights, same music each night—to reestablish control. Overstimulation often hides anxiety; limiting caffeine and late social media reduces overload. Remember, your goal isn’t perfect sleep but calm progression toward it. Even partial rest teaches your system stability. With consistency, overstimulated minds gradually learn to release vigilance. Recovery means retraining both body and mind to recognize quiet moments as safe, not foreign, creating pathways back to grounded, peaceful rest that nourishes stability.

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Practical training to help individuals independently manage personal care, household tasks, and community responsibilities, building confidence and self-sufficiency in daily life.

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