As we embrace our healing journey, the single most important thing is to ensure that we feel safe, and ensure that we are living in a safe environment.

Safety is the most important consideration because feeling safe is necessary in order for recovery to be possible. A physical and emotional sense of safety needs to be the foundational focus of our healing.

Without both being safe and feeling safe, healing can only occur very slowly and falteringly, if at all, as the sympathetic nervous system...