Emotional safety can be a healing experience in two ways. First, emotional safety creates an environment that alleviates the above symptoms by removing factors that create them in the first place. Second, emotional safety adds elements that support intimacy, connection with self, other and the divine in the moment. What It Entails While many factors contribute to emotional safety, I have found five to be particularly important. Pacing is important in building trust and establishing emotional safety.
Every person has their own unique pace of engaging and relating.
This pace needs to be cultivated and respected in a healing relationship. Creating space is another part of emotional safety in a relationship. Creating space means welcoming all parts of a person, known and unknown, comfortable and uncomfortable, spoken and unspoken. A healer may need to teach a client how to take space for themselves - to slow down, go inside, allow for emotional and somatic sensations, and know they will be respectfully held in time and space as they do so. Accountability means that a person's actions are in line with what they say.