Why Should You Learn to Feel Safe?

The world is a mess. We only have the safe spaces we create.

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I was raised to feel unsafe.

I think the people who taught me this thought they were doing me a favor, or teaching me the real ways of life, or preparing me for the “real world.” But what happened is that I’m near-constantly on the edge of a knife — a state that might be called…