Creating Safety Within

True, authentic, open-hearted embodied expression first requires safety within.

It requires that you’ve built solid ground beneath you - a foundation you can return to when creating, sharing, and expressing yourself vulnerably inevitably brings fear, doubt, disappointment, and the projections of others.

There are so many ways to create safety within the Self. None are easy. None are quick fixes.

My path to creating more safety within myself these past few years has looked like:

• walking through the depths of despair, panic, and the deepest grief

• leaning on friends more than I ever have before and allowing them to  truly see + support me

• having difficult conversations when I was terrified to do so, speaking my truth, and lovingly setting boundaries

• working with healers, therapists and coaches who have reflected my own strength back to me

• coming back to breathwork and allowing the breath to clear trauma from the body

• daily solo tea ceremonies in silence and devotion to Spirit

• plant medicine ceremonies and deep somatic purges while sobbing, screaming and shaking

• daily walks

• deep, gut-shaking belly laughter

• listening to my body and the limits of my energy

• gently expanding my capacity to sit with my discomfort

• gently expanding my capacity to allow the discomfort of others rather than rushing in to save, fix or people-please

• releasing shame and accessing more pleasure and desire than I ever thought possible

• and much more

All of this has led me here. To authentic, embodied expression.