Being a Safe Place For Yourself
Apr 11, 2025
Being a safe place for yourself is a life long journey, one that is full of ups, downs, and twists, especially for those of us living with energetic wounds and complex trauma. What is complex trauma? It is EVERYTHING that finds an expression in your body and nervous system including:
- Childhood and adulthood trauma from this life and others.
- Trauma from your ancestors.
- Our species trauma and all the species feelings that are hanging in the air right now.
- Our community trauma. The trauma of any communities, groups, and energy systems that you are part of knowingly or unknowingly.
- Celestial stuff. The absolutely intense and one-of-a-kind Astrological weather and composition of the Aquarian Age we are moving through right now.
How do all this find an expression in your system? Very simple, in ways that you experience physical struggles and emotion, seemingly sabotage yourself, and go into fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and flop. Here's how I am hearing it from my clients, family, and friends:
- Damla, I am crying again with no reason,
- Damla, I am eating carbs again,
- Damla, my job and boss suck,
- Damla, my anxiety has gotten so much more,
- Damla, my family is driving me insane,
- Damla, my creative projects are all on hold and not going anywhere,
- Damla, I can't concentrate in anything and I am exhausted ALL the time,
- Damla, my finances are horrible and WTF is going on with the stock market!!!
- And so on and so forth.
If any of these speak to you, congratulations! You are at the right place at the right time. Welcome again to Earth school, one that is coveted by many souls who are in line to be here.
I have a LOT to say about all of these but let me tell you the gist of it:
- If you are here, it is not an accident, punishment, or even a test, it is a blessing. We are going through unprecedented Aquarian times. Your soul has chosen this time for learning to move through the junk with grace. Everything you encounter in you and coming at you are here to help you become a master of reframing your thoughts and energy. Here's your mantra: I am so grateful to be alive right now.
- Everything belongs. The anxiety, the fear, and all your trauma rising up to the surface, they all belong to this time, to this life, and to you. You get to be with these emotions and sensations. You get to learn what it means to hold EVERYTHING in love. Here's your mantra: I hold ALL of myself in unconditional LOVE.
- You have choices. The main one being you get to choose to be there for yourself. Again and again. You get to forgive yourself. You get to start again. You get to choose to reach out to appropriate help and support. You get to define and redefine what it means to be there for yourself. Here's your mantra: I am here for me, no matter what.
What it all comes down to is this: you get to BE A SAFE PLACE FOR YOURSELF. Your inner capacity for being able to hold, soothe, show softness and gentleness to, and LOVE yourself is being challenged. In the spiritual world, every challenge is an opportunity for growth, evolution, and refinement. Yes, you have been doing this a thousand times in a thousand ways. Now you are asked to do it again, do it better, and do it in a NEW way.
Will you accept the challenge? Will you hold yourself in LOVE? Will you reach out to help when it is too hard or too much for you to do alone? These are the questions that this time demands you to lean into.
I see you, I honor your healing journey, I love you,
Damla
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