Safe Enough to Grow: Reflection Guide
This guide is designed to help you pause, reflect, and reconnect with what you need to feel grounded, creative, and whole in your leadership. Use it on your own, with a coach, or as a monthly check-in practice.
What is Inner Safety?
Inner safety is a felt sense of steadiness, self-trust, and presence. It’s what allows you to make clear decisions, take meaningful risks, and stay aligned with your values—even when the systems around you feel uncertain or unsafe.
When you feel safe inside, you're more able to:
- Say what needs to be said
- Set and hold boundaries
- Be wrong (and okay)
- Think creatively
- Regulate your nervous system under pressure
Reflection Prompts
Take 10–15 minutes to reflect or journal:
- Where in your leadership do you feel most safe? Least safe?
- What helps you feel grounded and present?
- Where are you currently over-functioning—or staying silent—to protect yourself?
- What would it look like to lead from a place of safety, rather than pressure?
- What boundary or practice could help you reclaim your steadiness this month?
Mindful Boundary Setting Checklist
Check in with these questions:
- Do I know where I end and others begin?
- Have I communicated my capacity and limits this week?
- Am I saying yes out of guilt, or clarity?
- What conversations am I avoiding, and why?
- Have I honored my own need for rest, recovery, or quiet? How have I claimed that time?
Daily Grounding Practice
Try this short ritual once a day—or whenever you feel dysregulated:
1. Sit comfortably. Place one hand on your heart or belly.
2. Take three slow, intentional breaths.
3. Name silently:
- One thing you’re feeling
- One thing you’re carrying
- One thing you’re ready to release
4. Offer yourself one kind phrase: “I am allowed to pause. I am allowed to grow slow.”
Want More Support?
You don’t have to do this alone. Let’s talk. I offer a free intro session to help you reconnect with what matters most, and sliding scale pricing is available (just ask).
