we're celebrating our 13 year anniversary this month, I really don't know how I got this lucky 😭

and thanks for the instructions, I'll try that out and see if it helps - I've used grounding techniques in the past but I've also struggled to even recognize when I'm dissociating, so it can be hard to tell when something is helping vs not - but I'll try it anyway.

One of the grounding exercises I learned about from Peter A. Levine's Waking the Tiger was something like touching various body parts and using a showerhead to generate sensation and repeating things like "this is my arm" and so on. I'm not sure I ever found that particularly useful, though.