You are safe, you are loved, you are held.
“You are safe, you are loved, you are held.” These were the words that came to me during my yoga today. As my hands purposefully cradled my abdomen I found myself repeating them to my unborn child.
I found a deep sense of peace in that connection and it struck me those words were also a great solace to me now, as an adult. Regardless of age or stage of life, this is what all human beings need to feel in order to flourish: that we are safe, we are loved and we are held.
I also came to realise that as an adult, I need to be able to extend these gifts to myself. The greatest challenges I have faced in this life, thus far – the birth of my first child, the long drawn out loss of my father to motor neurone disease and more recently, this leap of faith moving countries, have all honed this lesson: that in life we must learn to parent ourselves… (more…)