Regulation & Safety Menus

Regulation & Safety Coping Menus offer grounding options for times of distress, sensory overload, or intense symptoms.

These menus focus on helping you reconnect with your body and surroundings. They are different from menus that focus more on emotional comfort or reassurance.

How These Menus Are Used

Regulation and safety menus offer optional activities for times when symptoms feel intense or overwhelming and there is no immediate danger or medical emergency.

Individuals may choose one activity, return to the same menu repeatedly, or stop at any point. There is no expectation to complete a menu.

Menus in This Section

Choose a Coping Menu
Select the menu name below to open the full coping menu. You can explore as many or as few as you like.

Heavy Regulation Menu

Offers stronger grounding options for times when someone wants more physical or sensory input.

Deep Grounding Menu

Provides grounding-based activities that emphasize body awareness, orientation, and connection to the present moment.

Soft Neutral Grounding Menu

Offers gentler grounding options designed to support regulation when intensity is moderate or beginning to rise.

Each menu can be used independently and revisited as needed.

Important Notes

  • Regulation and safety menus are not therapy or treatment plans.
  • Not every option will feel supportive in every situation.
  • It is appropriate to pause, stop, or leave a menu unfinished.

These menus are intended to support safety and regulation without pressure.

Choosing a Starting Point

If symptoms feel intense or disorganizing, a regulation and safety menu may offer a useful starting point. If symptoms are new, severe, significantly different from your usual FND symptoms, or there is immediate danger, call 911 or seek urgent medical help instead of relying on a coping menu.

You can move between menu categories as your needs change.

These coping menus are educational and supportive resources and are not a substitute for medical care, diagnosis, treatment, or individualized advice from a qualified healthcare professional. Activities should be adapted to your individual needs, abilities, and circumstances.

If you have concerns about your symptoms, safety, or health, please contact your healthcare provider.