Do you feel safe?

Dear friend, 

Do any of the following symptoms fit how you’re feeling or what you're experiencing right now?

👉🏽 burnout

👉🏽 brain fog

👉🏽 exhaustion

👉🏽 over eating

👉🏽 under eating

👉🏽 codependency

👉🏽 irritability

👉🏽 having anxiety

👉🏽 feeling overwhelmed

👉🏽 feeling disconnected

👉🏽 trouble concentrating

👉🏽 trouble paying attention

👉🏽 attempting to control everything

👉🏽 having a short fuse or quick temper

👉🏽 trying to manage other people’s feelings

These are signs and symptoms of nervous system dysregulation.

They’re ways that we have learned to cope with feeling unsafe and/or employed as methods to manipulate situations or people to try and feel in control, seen, understood, or validated and accepted. 

To try and emulate a state of safety.

They’re considered protectors, as they’re the way(s) in which we try to protect ourselves from our surroundings. From the way certain situations are making us feel.

When we're not feeling safe, whether a threat is real or perceived, we will engage in our protectors, thus, we will not act from a free, or liberated, or sovereign, or authentic self. 

When we are using a protector, when we are acting out of a protection mechanism, consciously or unconsciously, we cannot be acting from our true selves. 

In this week’s episode, I go through how underrated safety is, and yet the key role that safety plays in our lives. I delve into the signs and symptoms of feeling unsafe or having an activated nervous system, and ways in which we reestablish safety in our bodies and minds.

And we also talk about why the ability to regulate ourselves is essential to cultivating and contributing to environments that are safe for others.

If this resonates, give episode 70 a listen. 🙏🏽

Episode 70: Psychological Safety is Underrated: How to Navigate Safety for Yourself & Others in the Workplace (and Beyond)

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BIG LOVE

mg <3