The Safe Enough Podcast
The Safe Enough Podcast
MacPherson Worobec, your self-worth recovery partner
Exploring what it means to feel safe enough in order to live with all the love, connection, belonging and purpose that we seek and strive for. Learning how to heal your self-worth, and heal from complex and relational trauma, safely, gently and effectively.
Episode 19: Without Safety There Can Be No Love
Everyone deserves genuine love, but you can’t do it without safety. How to bring safety into love. The 3rd of a series of 3 episodes on love. Show Notes: Lisa Feldman Barrett - How Emotions Are Made bell hooks - all about love  The Polyvagal Theory Additional episodes in this series: Ep 17 - Love Is Not A Feeling Ep 18 - Learning Loving
Feb 9, 2022
12 min
Ep 18: Learning Loving
Genuine love requires learning how to put the intention into action. How to unlearn love as a feeling, and learn the “love ethic.” The 2nd of a series of 3 episodes on love. Show Notes: bell hooks - all about love  Additional episodes in this series: Ep 17 - Love Is Not A Feeling Ep 19 - Without Safety There Can Be No Love
Feb 9, 2022
15 min
Ep 17: Love Is Not A Feeling
What if genuine love had nothing to do with a feeling? I propose a more concrete definition. The 1st of a series of 3 episodes on love. Show Notes  M Scott Peck -The Road Less Travelled  bell hooks - all about love Additional episodes in this series: Ep 18 - Learning Loving Ep 19 - Without Safety There Can Be No Love
Feb 9, 2022
16 min
Ep 16: How Reading Can Help You Heal
Why reading, and consuming content, can be a tool for gently connecting with your body and creating a felt sense of safety. The 3rd of a series of 3 episodes on gentle ways to connect with your body. Show Notes FREE RESOURCE: My favorite books on body-based healing and transformation Gabor Mate The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman In An Unspoken Voice: How The Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter Levine Interpersonal Neurobiology  Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy by Deb Dana
Jan 8, 2022
20 min
Ep 15: How Journaling Can Help You Heal
How a special kind of journaling can be a tool for gently connecting with your body and creating a felt sense of safety. The 2nd of a series of 3 episodes on gentle ways to connect with your body. Show Notes: FREE RESOURCE: 3 Journal Prompts For Gently Connecting With Your Body The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Jan 8, 2022
12 min
Ep 14: How Movement Can Help You Heal
How a special kind of movement can be a tool for gently connecting with your body and creating a felt sense of safety. The 1st of a series of 3 episodes on gentle ways to connect with your body. Show Notes Download Free Resource: This Movement Can Help You Gently Connect With Your Body
Dec 24, 2021
16 min
Ep 13: How To Grow Self-Worth
How do you grow your sense of worth and value? Some folks have higher amounts of self-worth, and some folks have lower amounts, so how do you grow yours?  This is the 2nd of a 2 episode series on self-worth. Brene Brown The Gifts of Imperfection Brene Brown Braving The Wilderness Stephen Porges The Polyvagal Theory
Dec 6, 2021
16 min
Ep 12: What Is Self-Worth?
What is self-worth?  Don't you need it first, in order to grow it? In this short 2 episode series on self-worth, I’ll be talking about what self-worth actually is, and how to grow it. Brene Brown The Gifts of Imperfection Online Etymology Dictionary - definition of worth Online Etymology Dictionary - definition of value Online Etymology Dictionary - definition of strength
Nov 25, 2021
22 min
Ep 11: It's All About You!
What’s at the heart of safety when using a nervous system informed approach. This is the last of 4 episodes on the basics of feeling safe enough to heal and make changes towards a life that is full of love, connection, belonging and purpose. The Polyvagal Theory via Stephen Porges Maurice Merleau-Ponty Other Episodes In Basics of Safety Series: Ep 8: What Is Safety? Ep 9: Beyond Trauma-Informed Ep 10: All For Naught
Oct 13, 2021
10 min
Ep 10: All For Naught
All about how to make real, lasting change in a way that is the most effective and also happens to be gentle. This is the 3rd of 4 episodes on the basics of feeling safe enough to heal and make changes towards a life that is full of love, connection, belonging and purpose. The Polyvagal Theory via Dr Stephen Porges The Polyvagal Theory via Deb Dana Other Episodes In Basics of Safety Series: Ep 8: What Is Safety? Ep 9: Beyond Trauma-Informed Ep 11: It's All About You!
Oct 13, 2021
16 min
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