Coaching practices for Self Care Floor
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- I sit in a chair all day and have zero spare time for mobility work, but I’ve noticed when I do get down on the floor my body feels better
- Every time I get busy I let a part of my life slide all the way to zero, and I don’t notice until something breaks
- I run myself into the ground taking care of everyone else and I’m always the last person on my own list
- I keep floating off — losing track of where and when I am, the present sliding away and something old taking over — and telling myself "I’m safe" does nothing; I want to use the solid pressure of the floor under my feet to physically yank myself back into right now.
- I bend over backwards to be fair to everyone else and then quietly leave myself out of the equation entirely
Practices that may help
- Daily floor sitting
Replace some chair time with floor positions to maintain hip and spine mobility without extra gym sessions.
Mobility Training, Made Practical - Set a non-negotiable floor for each burner
Define the minimum for each domain that, if crossed, signals an emergency — and protect those floors.
Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs - Fierce provision: identify and meet your own needs
Ask yourself what you need right now and take action to supply it — without waiting to be asked.
Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical - Grounding through physical contact with surfaces
Use the felt pressure of floor, chair, or wall contact to anchor your nervous system in the present moment.
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Movement as a Path to Safety - Be Fair: include yourself in the fairness you extend to others
Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships - Outsource or delegate to keep a burner lit without your direct fuel
Find ways to maintain a domain’s floor through systems, others, or automation rather than your direct effort.
Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs - FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships
FAST — Fair, Apologies (no unnecessary ones), Stick to values, Truthful — is a DBT interpersonal effectiveness skill developed by Marsha Linehan for maintaining self-respect in relationships. While DEAR MAN aims for getting what you need and GIVE aims for relationship health, FAST targets the internal cost: whether you feel like yourself and respect yourself after the interaction. - Know when EFT is not enough — and what to do
Self-guided EFT is suitable for manageable anxiety and mild distress; clinical presentations belong with a trained EFT or trauma practitioner.
EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows - Self-Soothing, Made Practical
Self-soothing is the skill of comforting and calming yourself during distress — through sensory input, self-compassionate internal dialogue, physical regulation, and deliberate attention management. It draws on well-established mechanisms: bottom-up sensory regulation, vagal activation, and self-compassion. Individual soothing techniques vary in evidence; the general category of self-regulation through internal resources is well grounded in both DBT and attachment research. - Building Self-leadership
Make leading from Self — rather than from a reactive part — your day-to-day default.
Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical
Related concerns
- Pay Yourself First When Burned Out
Ask yourself what you need right now and take action to supply it — without waiting to be asked.
Fierce provision: identify and meet your own needs
- Leader Self Care
Ask yourself what you need right now and take action to supply it — without waiting to be asked.
- Life Floor Setting
Define the minimum for each domain that, if crossed, signals an emergency — and protect those floors.
Set a non-negotiable floor for each burner
- When Fierce Self Compassion Fierce Provision
Ask yourself what you need right now and take action to supply it — without waiting to be asked.
- Access Self Ifs Practice
Self energy — a core concept in Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems — refers to the innate calm, curious, compassionate core that exists in every person beneath their reactive parts. IFS holds that healing happens through parts experiencing the presence of Self, not through willpower or technique. The "8 Cs" (calm, curiosity, clarity, compassion, confidence, courage, creativity, connectedness) describe its qualities. Evidence for IFS overall is growing but limited in controlled trials; Self energy overlaps with well-studied mindfulness and self-compassion constructs.
- Argument Mapping When Burned Out
Argument mapping is the practice of drawing the logical structure of an argument as a diagram — claims, supporting reasons, objections, and rebuttals made spatially explicit. Developed into a pedagogical system by Tim van Gelder, it is one of the few critical-thinking interventions with controlled-study support: students who learned argument mapping showed significantly larger gains in reasoning ability than those in conventional classes.
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