25/07/2025
Emotional safety is not something we stumble into, rather, it’s something we intentionally build. One step at a time.
If you’ve grown up in an environment where emotions were invalidated or dismissed, your nervous system learns to stay alert, guarded, or disconnected to protect you from feeling hurt. It’s probably “safer” to not feel or be who you are.
But emotional safety is a practice that you can engage in.
It teaches your body that it’s safe now, you’re allowed to feel, to exist, to speak.
Emotional safety grows when we feel seen, soothed, and supported. And the good news is, you can build emotional safety for yourself!
Start by:
1. Noticing your internal world with curiosity, not shame.
2. Speak to yourself kindly, especially when you’re hurting.
3. Set gentle boundaries that honour our nervous system.
4. Surround yourself with people who want the best for you, and can do so in a non-judgemental way.
5. Choose intentional responding over reacting.
6. Practice rituals and build habits that anchor safety in the body.
Curiosity, kindness, acceptance and non-judgemental approaches make space for all our emotions, not just the comfortable ones.
Healing is about feeling safe enough to be fully present within you.
Embark on your journey towards building emotional safety for yourself, and others today.
From,
The Calming Ark
