Name Your Safe Places

[surviving_it_all]

I learn as my anxiety improves, that the number of places where I feel safe expands. I didn't have many places 6 months ago where I truly felt safe.

One of my safe places now is Rm 325 of the math building at my university. Another safe place is my car.

I hope that soon again, I will feel completely safe and at peace with being in my house and my room.

Where is a safe place for you?

 

[who am i kim]

My parts of my house.

 

[ChavaRo]

My safe place is my home, with my husband, where it's warm and peaceful and the kitchen is always well-stocked... My home that I share with a man who loves me, and our two cats. The home that I can feel safe coming home to every day.

And my other safe place is the office of a professor at school who I've become very close with. She knows my story, and cares, and doesn't judge me, and she believes in me even when I don't believe in myself and gives me hope for recovery. I'm very glad to have her in my life.

 

[safenow]

My safe place is up on the top of the rocky mountains away from all humans. It is just outside of Rifle, Colorado, USA. I'm sorry to say it now has a high fence around it. Over the years others found it, but they desecrated it, so the government fixed it so no others can get up there.

Sometimes I feel safe where I live, but not often. Had too many break-ins over the years. I make my home a safe place until that happens. Most times, I find I have to move after that happens to find peace again, but now I can't do that. I have too many physical limitations. sigh.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

My safe place is my home. It is very cozy.

 

[Chincho]

I feel that if I tell what my safe places are, they won't be safe anymore. Sorry...

 

[DharmaGirl]

My safe place is my room, which I am changing right now into a better, more cozy space. My other safe place is my car. Right now I don't feel safe anywhere else but with the surgery coming up I am a little jittery.

 

['91 Girl]

The place I feel the safest is at my church. The people there are truly caring and willing to be there for me. I have had so much healing simply by being around them. I also feel safe at home now. I moved out on my own and moved to a different nearby city. I feel safe because my father no longer knows where I live (I don't think), and I am not in the unhealthy dynamics of my mother's side of the family. So now my home is a safe place for me.

There's also certain people I am safe with regardless of where I am at. They are my emotional support and in some ways, my protectors from myself and things too difficult to handle. These people are my T and several people from my church.

 

[Jlso111187]

My room. I love my four walls I hate leaving them. My day is spent in my room all alone with my door closed. I hate when others enter.

My safe people are my mother and husband. I dont think I could trust anyone else.

 

[Britt.f7]

It use to be my grandmother's house. I never felt I had to worry about anything there, until she got older and I worried about her dying while I was there.

My house, most of the time.

 

[CraftyCath]

At the beach - always, I feel so peaceful there looking at the ocean and the huge sky's.

In my T's therapy room.

I don't feel safe at home - too much noise, too many people.

 

[The Albatross]

My safe place is in my bedroom which is painted my favorite color with many amateur paintings I have collected over the years of woods, waterfalls, and mountains (which remind me of Oregon and my grandparents), under a vintage quilt I found when I bought my fish camp and a pile of animal companions.

I feel safe totally relaxing with my canines and felines listening/keeping watch over our household.