An underlying foundation of felt-safety in any relationship is vital for it’s authenticity, and true relational safety makes any accomodation or support towards ourselves or another individual more genuine, trustworthy and ethical.
Relational Safety is essential for ongoing honesty and connection and accomodation of support needs, and without this element will never truly be enough.
I’ve written about it before (scroll back to the ‘Safe Space’ Article) and I’ll say it again, declaring a space safe, does not a safe space make.
Relational safety - a relationship based on trust, authenticity, and a capacity for holding space for the other is what our brain, body and nervous system seeks in order to give us the green light for relationship.
Interoception, the eight sense, the sense that keeps us alive by giving us internal bodily cues about our safety is begging for us to listen to our instinct when it comes to relationship.
And when we override our instinct because someone has told us the…
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