As we continue through the decades, there is do much more that makes us feel unsafe. Our careers are threatened by our advancing age,our children are grown and we can't keep them safe. Our parents die, marriages end,our eyesight dims,our hearing fades. To feel safe we learn to warmly welcome help from all sides and don't pretend we are still strong and independent. The skills you teach for feeling safe will continue to help us in these latet years and I thank you for writing this.
Jo, thank you for sharing, in such an eloquent manner, the sobering examples of how our sense of safety is threatened throughout our lifespan. I appreciate your support. As you said, we all need to welcome help from all sides, in order to learn to ride the waves.
Thanks for this question, Mike. If those things that make us feel troubled or create discomfort stem from fear, i.e. lack of feeling safe, they would go on that list. Sometimes, it's hard to discern one from the other. But, I would suggest that much of what we feel uneasy about has something to do with lack of safety and security.
Thanks, Cassie! I can see that feeling unsafe and discomfort are related to fear. I guess my sense was that feeling unsafe taps into a deeper well than discomfort. The one feels more threatening and permanent than the other; like discomfort is perhaps only temporary (e.g. patients who say, I just have to get through the PT and I’ll be back on the road). But, I can see that they both evoke some deeply seated fear. Anyway, I wrote some of mine down!
As we continue through the decades, there is do much more that makes us feel unsafe. Our careers are threatened by our advancing age,our children are grown and we can't keep them safe. Our parents die, marriages end,our eyesight dims,our hearing fades. To feel safe we learn to warmly welcome help from all sides and don't pretend we are still strong and independent. The skills you teach for feeling safe will continue to help us in these latet years and I thank you for writing this.
Jo, thank you for sharing, in such an eloquent manner, the sobering examples of how our sense of safety is threatened throughout our lifespan. I appreciate your support. As you said, we all need to welcome help from all sides, in order to learn to ride the waves.
Thanks, Cassie! It was great to see everyone Wednesday!
Are you asking particularly about this that make us feel unsafe? Or also things that trouble us or create discomfort?
Thanks for this question, Mike. If those things that make us feel troubled or create discomfort stem from fear, i.e. lack of feeling safe, they would go on that list. Sometimes, it's hard to discern one from the other. But, I would suggest that much of what we feel uneasy about has something to do with lack of safety and security.
Thanks, Cassie! I can see that feeling unsafe and discomfort are related to fear. I guess my sense was that feeling unsafe taps into a deeper well than discomfort. The one feels more threatening and permanent than the other; like discomfort is perhaps only temporary (e.g. patients who say, I just have to get through the PT and I’ll be back on the road). But, I can see that they both evoke some deeply seated fear. Anyway, I wrote some of mine down!