What is Physical Safety?
Physical safety is about lowering the chance of being physically hurt, whether by accidents, other people, or your own actions
Physical safety is about lowering the chance of being physically hurt, whether by accidents, other people, or your own actions
An honest guide to safety has to talk about the fact that many of the systems people signposted, fail to provide any help.
Emotional safety is the feeling that it is okay to be yourself with someone — that you won’t be mocked, shamed, attacked, or controlled for what you think, feel, or need. It is about trust and respect, not perfection or never having conflict.
In this Lesson, we look at how visualisation and meditation techniques can be used to create an “inner happy place”.
The Iceberg Model of Culture, is a well-known framework that shows how most parts of any culture are invisible beneath the surface.
Compassion is the ability to notice when someone (including yourself) is struggling, and to respond with understanding rather than blame or distance. It’s a mix of awareness, empathy, and kindness — a gentle “I see your pain, and I care.”
Meditation and mindfulness meditation are both ways of training attention so the mind becomes steadier, clearer, and kinder.
Judgment is the way your mind makes sense of the world by deciding what something means. It’s how you form opinions, evaluate situations, and choose what you think is right, wrong, safe, unsafe, good, bad, helpful, or unhelpful.
Although Rogers wrote mainly about the real self and ideal self, the terms independent self and interdependent self come from later “self‑construal” research in cultural psychology
Curiosity is the natural desire to know more. It’s the gentle inner pull that says, “What is that?”, “Why is it like this?”, or “What would happen if…?”