Emotional Foundational Needs: Safety
Emotional Safety
Emotional safety is a foundational need that we have as human beings. If we do not gain this vital skill it will affect us throughout our life. Below are a few links to help you learn more about the importance of feeling safe (within yourself and with others), and things that you may need to work on to heal this missing foundational piece.
Please remember I am not a counselor or a therapist. This information is to provide you with tools to help get you started on your own journey of recovery.
Bonding with a primary caregiver in the early years is critical for emotional safety and healthy development throughout life. Caregivers need to create an environment for children that is dependable, trustworthy and loving.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/03/23/how-and-why-to-create-emotional-safety-for-our-kids/
How To Create Emotional Safety Without Losing Yourself (1:40). Simple and basic.
The 5 Elements in Inner Emotional Safety or Self Compassion (10:12)
Emotional Safety: How to Improve Relationships and Communication (6:46)
7 Green Flags Someone is Emotional Safe in a Relationship (7:28)
“As we grow up, we gradually learn to take care of ourselves, both physically and emotionally, but we get our first lessons in self-care from the way that we are cared for. Mastering the skill of self-regulation depends to a large degree on how harmonious our early interactions with our caregivers are.”
(Bessel van der Kolk, “The Body Keeps the Score”, p112)
How to Build Emotional Safety in Relationships (10:50)