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Being With Someone Who Keeps You Safe
Book review of Safe With Me by K.L. Slater
Safety is one of the five needs on Maslow’s original hierarchy of needs, coming right after physiological needs, which include water, food, and clothes.
We all want to feel safe, and during our lives, we all seek for people who make us feel safe. It’s burned into our DNA.
When we feel safe with someone, and they take that safety away from us, it feels like the deepest betrayal.
The author, K.L. Slater
K.L. Slater — Kim — had been trying for many years to get published, but got nowhere with her writing. Then, when she was 40, she went back to university and gained a first-class honours degree in English & Creative Writing and a master's degree in Creative Writing.
She held a day time job during those five years of study, and the courses increased her confidence and belief in her writing, and allowed her to try different writing.
The first books of K.L. Slater’s which became published were Young Adult fiction for the Macmillan Children’s Books, which she wrote under the name Kim Slater. Her Young Adult debut, SMART, won an award, and actually started as a short story for her MA in Creative Writing…
