Seeking safety

Falling in love with someone who reaches out... Most unscrupulous? Those who cross professional boundaries and use their position for self-seeking purposes

Safety behaviours are actions carried out with the intention of preventing a feared catastrophe. In the short-term they often give a sense of relief, but in the long-term they prove unhelpful. This information handout describes the essential features of safety-seeking behaviors.

When I was hospitalized, I realized that I, like a lot of you, use some pretty unhealthy coping skills to overcome different negative emotions. These coping skills led me to do some pretty dumb…

An e-safety quiz. Ideal for a plenary or as a review at the end of a series of e-safety lessons. Questions and answers are provided that look at aspects of online safety, personal information and who to ask for help.

Safety behaviours are actions carried out with the intention of preventing a feared catastrophe. In the short-term they often give a sense of relief, but in the long-term they prove unhelpful. This information handout describes the essential features of safety-seeking behaviors.

Danica Harris, Ph.D., SEP on Instagram: "Creating internal safety is key for healing, which is why befriending yourself, softening to your experience, and honoring your capacity are all a necessary part of healing and recovery work. We can’t hate ourselves whole, and following trauma, we need to be intentional about lovingly putting all of our fragmented parts back together. To those of you seeking safety with yourself, I see you."

This illustration helps explain the underlying dynamics and process of how childhood pain (roots) leads to a faulty sense of self, which in turn can lead to some form of dependency to cope with that pain, leading to problems to adulthood (fruit).

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We're wired to seek connection & belonging with others, but when we constantly prioritize other's opinions, we might find ourselves wanting to stop seeking external validation.

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In social situations, safety behaviors are subtle actions people take to avoid anxiety. For example, someone who is anxious about socializing at a party...

When you feel that a client is at risk of suicide or self-harm, but they have not reached the level of severity required for involuntary hospitalization,...

As a clinical social worker, I often worry about my clients. Besides working with a higher-risk population that have had hospitalizions in the past year, I’m a human being and I care about my…

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