HEALTH AND WELLBEING.

A Sense of Safety. 

“My first impulse is to find something to love, something to be inspired by, something heroic, something recognizable as the gift and the burden of the human condition, the pain and grace that’s there to find in everyone you meet”- Robert Kurtz.

Wellbeing is a multidimensional quality. An intertwining of the physical, psychological, the emotional, environmental. Each are inseparable.

So many of us are aware of how to tend to our bodies, yet less is known about how to nurture the garden of our minds. How to create a safe haven within them, away from the ruts of judgment and comparison our minds can fall prey into. To cultivate such a mind, or indeed to return it to its natural state, is of dual benefit, softening the inner dialogues we experience within ourselves day to day, creating a harmonious realm within which in turn can extend without- to our relationships with the world.

Developing a felt sense of saftey fhas woven itself into the fabric of humanistic approaches to therapy and care, from psychologist Carl Rogers work in the 1950’s and Stephen Porges pioneering studies on the polyvagal theory, as the “science of safety”. A sense of safety, being elemental for humans to heal and beyond- to flourish. To feel at ease within ones self and thus with others requires trust, and a willingness to understand rather than to judge. It’s to offer compassion to ourselves and to others. To embrace imperfections, differences, to be open. Above all safety is more than the absence of threat, it’s the presence of love.

18. March. 2025.

References and Further Reading.

Rogers Carl, 1961 On Becoming a Person, A Therapists View of Psychotherapy. Constable, London.