Where is your safe place in your heart?

[jackiesj]

Thru Covid, MS,Relationships,life experience...where in your mind heart soul when you close your eyes can you find "the safe place."

It is going thru a thought process and pulling together locations people smells etc, that are truely happy for you.This way at a moment when needed you can pull on that and find a balance even if it is at a stoplight, panic attack or with pain.No the pain etc hasnt gone away exactly but peace in prayer of feeling these things can really destress....grab the moment.

[hurtingheart1]

Hi I liked what you were saying here - trying to read & understand I’m having bad time right now and need a safe happy place to get through thus😣😔

[Dolphin14 Moderator]

My safe place is the ocean.

I can pull the image up when I need it. I can smell it, hear it, feel the sand beneath my feet.

I can see the waves crashing against the shore.

I agree it's good to have a

Safe place in mind. Focus on it whenever you need to which helps with relaxation

[Beingindependent Volunteer]

My safe place is memories of good moments

[Shy_Guy]

My safe place is an actual place that I went when I was a teenager. A small island in the Bahamas where the beach sand is a light colored pink. Aqua clear warm water. A hut near the beach and a jungle path to it. Coconut palms all around with birds calling, light breeze always blowing. 30 minutes rain storm every evening and the smell of salt and ozone from the storm.

[SavingGrace Administrator in reply to Shy_Guy]

This sounds amazing 🥰

[Midori]

I have a few places which bring back good memories, a certain part of Cornwall where I spent some summers; a farm in Wales where I worked in the holidays; a Climbing holiday in winter in Wales with snowdrifts you wouldn't believe! Times with my aunt and uncle on the Sussex coast; Long walks in forests near rivers and waterfalls; Riding horses anywhere I could, A place in a Hampshire village, where I could sit on the bank and dabble my feet in the water in summer.

Cheers, Midori

[Nathalie99 Partner]

Thank you for sharing this, jackiesj.

It's a technique used by my therapist during sessions to help find the sense of safety.

I have several safe places, some of which are brief moments from childhood that are very positive.

I have some positive associations with music and some places that are a calming influence.

[SavingGrace Administrator in reply to Nathalie99]

Amazing. Very encouraging to hear, thank you too

[SavingGrace Administrator]

I appreciate your post and sentiments here especially; right now, I am battling to refind that safe place and hoping to get there soon so that I can realise the long holding on. Treading water can be exhausting. And I have relied on old true moments and memories to keep me afloat. Slowly I am sifting and sorting those experiences to come to judge and realise what brings me truth and also what can allow me joy. I’m so glad and grateful that you’ve posted about this. I’ve recently been wondering if my random senseless sorting of life would have any resonance and cohesion in a ‘real world’ . It is reassuring to hear that someone else is finding meaning from piecing fragments together- like a patchwork quilt 🥰