Exploring What It Means toFeel Safe

I have taken a little bit of time for a reset.  I needed to reflect, listen and be more present with all of the insights that my clients and the universe were offering me.  Now stepping back into this sharing space, I continue to be fascinated by this continued theme of knowing.  

Knowing is so difficult to describe, and even if a description was possible for us all, each description would be different.  This topic keeps popping up in my brain and body because to me it relates back to that question of “if I’ve never felt safe (loved, taken care of, etc) then how will I know it when I feel it?” 

Over the course of offering support and doing this work I have had so many clients have moments of suddenly “feeling safe”, “feeling a sense of reparentling and renurturing themselves”, and “getting more familiar with how it feels to trust themselves”.  I put these in quotations not to diminish these experiences, but because, again, they will feel different for all of us and might be described differently as well.  

I have tried to discover what pathways my clients have journeyed on in order to come to these new and unfamiliar feelings in their body.  The common thread so far is having the capacity to know when something feels like the opposite of how everything else has felt in their bodies and the dialogues that have been running in their minds.  

When we can have a space of support that offers an opportunity to feel into these new feelings without judgement, expectation, or criticism, then it becomes possible to finally discern between a feeling of what we might call safety or trust and what has felt unsafe or distrustful.  This becomes our knowing. 

As humans I believe that each of us has the ability to nurture that awareness in order to eventually feel that technically we might not have ever felt before.  I am still learning and shaping my thoughts around this, however, in a nutshell, these are my musing so far. 

I look forward to offering you more later this month and connecting with each of you soon.