Sensitive women are natural healers, creatives, and caregivers. We notice the little details that others often might miss. We’re highly attuned to the needs of others and animals in our care. Our sensitive nature is what enables us to bring beauty into this world in all kinds of ways. Simple grounding practices for sensitive women can be the different between surviving and thriving.
While this is a beautiful part of being a sensitive woman, there are times when we can feel overwhelmed. Our energy can become scattered, physically and energetically. As a result, we can end up being people pleasers or reaching points of burnout.
This is why it’s so important for us to return to our inner selves with grounding practices. These practices restore balance and allow us to continue sustainably sharing our light.
Today, I’m going to share four grounding practices. You’re invited to try these practices and notice what feels soothing for you.
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Benefits of Grounding
Grounding is about reconnecting to the present moment. We’re able to settle our bodies and sense the earth beneath our feet. The act of grounding is a way to tell the nervous system that it is safe to calm down. As we do this, it becomes easier to examine the thoughts going through our minds. We can move from a constricted mental space to one that is expansive and peaceful.
For sensitive women, simple daily grounding rituals can make all the difference. They help us stay centered, protect our energy, and replenish ourselves. This way we can continue caring for others without getting disconnected from our authentic selves.
Energetically: Highly Sensitive People and empaths are especially attuned to the emotional and energetic fields of those around them. We naturally pick up on what others are feeling. This can often happen without realizing it. Grounding invites us to pause and return to our frequency. It allows us to discern what’s ours and what we may have absorbed. We can begin to release what doesn’t belong to us and return to our inner selves.
Physically: Grounding supports the health of our nervous system. When we slow down and process our emotions. We give the body a chance to shift out of fight-or-flight and into a state of calm. Studies have shown that grounding can reduce cortisol levels, ease stress, and even improve sleep. In this more regulated state, we often experience relief. By setting greater openness to creativity, insight, and possibility.
Grounding offers a safe place for your mind, body and spirit. You can come home to yourself through breath, touch, stillness or movement.
Grounding Practice Ideas to Replenish Yourself
To continue offering our natural gifts sustainably, it’s important to replenish and nurture ourselves too. This might look like taking a few moments throughout the day for yourself.
Even if it’s just 5 minutes before a meeting or writing your next paragraph. Take a few deep breaths or sit in silence. Give your body and spirit time to experience stillness.
Practice 1: EFT Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique)
EFT tapping is a gentle but effective way to release stress. This is an accessible way to reduce anxiety and soothes emotional overwhelm. This grounding practice combines tapping on specific meridian points with intentional breathing and positive affirmations. By doing this, you can make your nervous system feel safe. Tapping helps process emotions you’ve been holding inside of you and an opportunity to release them.
How to start:
- Find a quiet space where you won’t be disturbed.
- Watch a guided EFT tapping video tailored for sensitive women or emotional release (YouTube has many free options). This video by Nick Ortner is a great one. You can tap to feel settled, or to work through a specific emotion (like anxiety or fear) and even for certain life situations (dealing with rejection or financial stress).
- Create your version: You can begin by gently tapping on the side of your hand (the “karate chop” point), then move through the other tapping points on your face, chest, and hands. As you tap, repeat affirmations like, “Even though I feel overwhelmed, I completely love and accept myself.”
Why it helps:
For sensitive women, emotions and energies can build up quickly. At times, we aren’t even aware this is happening, but our bodies start to give us signs. EFT helps to let go of these intense feelings and bring your body back to a state of calm.
Practice 2: Connect with Supportive Friends or Community
Sometimes grounding happens through connection rather than solitude. Finding genuine relationships with fellow sensitive women (or people who understand your experience) can be highly restorative. These conversations can be validating and reassuring. It can also be cathartic to express what’s on your heart and mind.
Consider this:
- Schedule regular check-ins with a friend or group that “gets” your sensitivity.
- Share honestly about your feelings and challenges, knowing you will be met with empathy, not judgment.
- Use these moments to release pent-up energy and receive emotional support. This may be even a time to share possible solutions to problems, or creatively talk through a specific challenge. Sometimes we need that other perspective to figure out the next steps.
Why it helps:
Sensitive women often carry emotions that can feel heavy or isolating. A safe, understanding community ties you back to belonging. A beautiful reminder that you are not alone.
Practice 3: Release Energy Cords from Daily Interactions
As mentioned earlier, sensitive women can easily absorb the energy of others throughout the day. Energy cords are invisible energetic attachments formed between ourselves. These can be created with people, environments, or digital spaces (even from work or social media) during the day. If we’re not mindful, these cords can begin to weigh us down or cloud our energy.
A simple practice:
- Visualize cutting or gently releasing these cords at the end of your day.
- You can find guided meditations or practices focused on cord-cutting for energetic cleansing. This video by Denise Dunlavy is especially soothing. This is great for both you and any animals nearby who may need grounding, too.
I’m grateful to Denise for introducing this concept so clearly in one of her recent animal communication workshops. Her insight helped me see how important this practice can be for sensitive people.
Why it helps:
You reclaim your energy and prevent emotional exhaustion by consciously releasing these connections.
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Practice 4: Spend Time Outdoors, Connecting with Nature
Spend time or even a few moments outdoors, feeling the earth beneath your feet. Listening to the sounds of nature all around you.
The earth is one of the most profound sources of grounding for sensitive women. An overstimulated nervous system can be quickly soothed by the feel of the soil or grass beneath your feet. It can be uplifting to listen to the sounds of wind or birds.
Ideas for grounding in nature:
- Take barefoot walks on grass, sand, or dirt.
- Sit quietly under a tree and listen deeply.
- Practice mindful breathing while focusing on natural sights, smells, and sounds.
Why it helps:
The earth’s life-giving energy allows your sensitive soul to rest and recharge. This is a soothing way to calm your nervous system and feel safe within your body.
Final Thoughts
As sensitive women, we give so much of our energy to others. Setting aside time each day to ground and restore ourselves is part of sustaining our natural gifts and continuing to make a meaningful impact. These grounding practices are invitations to care for yourself with kindness and patience.
May these simple rituals help you feel supported and connected to yourself, to others and the world around you.
Be sensitive, be free
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