Worried about your online safety?
Our new DIY guide can help
Experiencing digital abuse can be deeply distressing, traumatic, and draining, so it can be helpful to take a pause before beginning and set an intention to approach this guide in whatever way feels comfortable.
We have permission to go at whatever pace feels right for us. It’s okay to skip sections, come back later, or just focus on one small step at a time. Our wellbeing is the most important thing.
When dealing with difficult emotional issues, it’s important to take care of ourselves and our nervous system, and grounding exercises can help with that. Here’s one example that can be used over and over, but other breathing exercises, meditations, visualisations and more are available free on our healing platform, Bloom.
This is a simple, quick exercise we can do anywhere to calm your system and connect with our body.
In this exercise, we’ll take 3 deep, slow breaths. Find a comfortable spot, either sitting or lying down. Take your time. When you’re ready, close your eyes and start to notice the sensations in your body.
This guide covers some key types of digital abuse, and they may not be relevant for everyone. You can skip straight to the situation closest to your experience, pick out a few to focus on, or you can read them all. Choose your starting point below.
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