You feel unsafe inside your body because someone used it to regulate themselves.

You feel unsafe in your own body because you learned that feeling your feelings and expressing them made others uncomfortable.

You feel unsafe inside your body because they made you believe your body did not belong to you.

You feel unsafe inside your body because before you had the chance to build a relationship with it, you were forced to abandon it so someone else could live through you.

You feel unsafe inside your body because it has been starved of love and play, and filled with shame, measurement, projection, entitlement, and expectations.

So you escaped to your mind as a coping mechanism.

You intellectualise. You overthink. You strategise your way through life. You become hyper-aware of the emotions and needs of others, while struggling to meet your own.

It has become natural to be useful to others, but harder to show up for yourself.

Having desires and fully resting in the feeling of them can feel foreign to your body. Receiving feels unsafe when you are used to being the one who carries everything.

If anything here resonated with you, it is time to feel safe again. 

To reclaim. To reconnect and to come home.

Your natural expression as a woman in her feminine energy is receiving. But to receive, you have to return to your body.

On the other side of feeling unsafe in yourself lives a wild, fierce, abundant version of you who dares to desire, sense, and own what lives in her heart.

On the other side of feeling unsafe lives the one who cannot be reduced to the limitations of another.

On the other side of feeling unsafe lives the one who feels from the body, yearns from the heart, and dreams from the mind.

Your body is not a cage. 

It is a temple. 

A vessel to honour.

The skin you chose for this lifetime. 

A sacred home for the soul moving through tis earth.

My Story

My life turned upside down when real love showed up through another person.

I felt genuine love for a man who met me with desire, patience, and devotion.

I wanted to embrace what we had. But pure happiness quickly turned into a deep void where my reality clashed with every illusion my mind had been conditioned to believe love is.

My ego began its demonstration. 

Love cannot be this simple. 

You have to earn it. 

You need to be perfect.

You need to protect yourself 

My body said yes. I had opened my heart. I felt a natural sense of surrender and deep respect. But when he showed up devoted to the promises he had made, my body had yet to gain the capacity to fully receive what I had been asking for.

It turned out I had spent years feeling unsafe in my own body without having the words for it.

And this love story exposed me to that truth.

Time stood still every time he gazed into my eyes with pure desire and adoration. And I dissociated. I could not feel. I didn’t allow myself to feel.

What my heart longed for, felt like danger to my mind. 

So my mind took control and guarded my heart.

It was the end of that relationship. But the beginning of the unbecoming. The unbecoming of everything I thought I had to be in order to be loved. 

A reclamation of my mind, my body, and my spirit.

That journey led me back to the woman in the mirror. The one who had been waiting to be recognised in the same way she had always desired to be recognised by others, but could not yet hold that recognition when love showed up to offer it.

This path led me back to the ability to receive what was in my heart.

To dream again.

To desire again.

To claim again.

Growing up in a patriarchal household, it was normal to see feminine energy shamed, reduced, and held to impossible standards of sacrifice, duty, and disappearance.

Feminine energy was something to be used. Life felt like a psychological battleground, and I learned to carry the invisible weight of others while disappearing into the background of my own life.

I tried to do everything right.

I lived through the mind.

I achieved. I performed. I adapted.

But no achievement and no short-lived approval gave me a real sense of joy.

I was a sensitive soul. A deep feeler with an intensity I had learned to suppress in order to stay safe.

When real love showed up and my nervous system could not hold it, it felt like breaking free from a spell. It revealed everything that was never mine to carry.

So I started listening to my body.

I started approaching it as the temple it is.

And I noticed that every time I followed my heart, a new spark ignited inside me. Brighter, wilder, freer.

Nobody is meant to live under the spell of someone else’s fear, shame, or projection.

Your happiness lives on the other side of the cage that was built around you.

Feeling safe in your body again is about rebuilding the relationship with your whole being. It is allowing the heart and mind to co-create in harmony. It is learning to trust your inner voice again.

All of your outer relationships begin with the one you have with yourself.

So if you keep facing the same triggers, the same loops, the same patterns pulling you into intellectualising, analysing, proving, and abandoning yourself, it is time for change.

It is time to break free.

Your ability to experience true love, joy, and happiness lives on the other side of living only from the mind.

Life flows for the woman who is in touch with her body.

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