The October Grounding Guide: Regulating Before Things Get Hectic You finish one task and immediately think about the next. An email still needs an answer, a conversation keeps replaying, and your mind is already somewhere else—even when you finally have a quiet moment. Overwhelm often builds in the small spaces between responsibilities: the breaks you skip, the boundaries you postpone, and the moments you promise yourself you’ll rest when everything is finished. But what if you did not have to wait until everything was done to take care of yourself? As October moves toward its final weeks, notice how you’ve been moving through