If you want to stop holding back, start by creating safety in your own body. Feeling safe in your body is the difference between surviving and actually thriving.

This sense of safety doesn’t come naturally when your nervous system is stuck in survival mode. Disconnection, self-doubt, and overwhelm can take over, leaving you reactive and unsure of your next move.

If you’re tired of feeling stuck, it’s time to understand why your body feels unsafe and how to shift out of survival mode. Learning to recognize and respond to your body’s signals is the first step to reclaiming your confidence, your clarity, and your ability to move forward.

This isn’t a sign to give up—it’s an invitation to go deeper.

If you’re ready to feel more grounded, connected, and in control, tune in. In this episode, we’re breaking down why your nervous system keeps you stuck, how to create safety within yourself, and how Garnet can help you feel steady as you grow. This is the reset you’ve been waiting for.

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER:

🌽 What it means to feel safe in your body.

💕 Why your nervous system gets stuck in survival mode.

🍂 How disconnection from your body shows up and affects your life.

🥧 Tools to calm your nervous system and restore a sense of safety.

🍁 How Garnet can help you ground, regulate, and feel secure.

🕯️ Ways to build trust in your emotions, instincts, and inner wisdom.

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Episode #47 – How To Feel Safe In Your Body

Welcome to the Crystal Self Healer Podcast. I’m Corissa Weaver. On this podcast, we blend the magic of crystals with the science of psychology to help you break free from chaos, ditch the overwhelm, and master your emotions so you can have more energy, get more done, and feel better every day. Get ready to unlock your intuition and restore your true power as we cover how you can transform your life using crystals and self awareness.

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When you don’t feel safe in your body, most likely you shy away or you don’t show up as your highest and best self. This could be when you feel stressed or challenged.

I think back to all the times I wanted to crawl out of my skin because I was about to have a difficult conversation or a challenging interaction. Like a disagreement with someone, or having to advocate for myself, like during a job interview.

Maybe you don’t speak up for yourself. Maybe you go along with things, even if they don’t serve your best and highest good. Maybe you shoulder or harbor guilt and shame around those things. And most likely you carry undue stress and burden as a result.

Ultimately there is incongruence between who you want to be and how you are showing up. And this creates a cycle of self abandonment that can be felt throughout your entire body, emotional capacities, and mental faculties.

Today, we’re going to explore how to feel safe in your body because when your body feels safe, everything else starts to shift. We’ll talk about why feeling unsafe happens, how to reconnect with your body, and how to begin cultivating a deep sense of trust within your body.

Feeling safe in your body is an internal state of ease, trust and congruence between your mind and emotions. It’s not just the absence of external threats, it’s a deep sense of knowing that your body is a safe space for you to experience life fully without judgment or fear.

From an emotional perspective, feeling safe in your body means that you can sit with your feelings, whether they’re pleasant or uncomfortable, without needing to suppress, run from, or overanalyze them. You trust that your emotions are valid and that they can move through you without overwhelming or defining you. This emotional safety allows you to process challenges. In a way that feels supportive rather than threatening.

Mentally feeling safe in your body means that your thoughts are aligned with self-compassion and self-trust. It’s the belief that your body is working with you, not against you. It’s a mindset that says “I can trust what I’m feeling,” whether it’s a gut instinct, a physical cue, or even the need to rest. It’s not about forcing your body to fit into external expectations, or silencing its signals; instead it’s about letting your body guide you while your mind supports the journey.

From a physical standpoint, your body is capable of producing the right amount of hormones in relation to the threat at hand and then its ability to return to normal levels afterward so you can relax and go about your life.

When challenges arise, you don’t feel the need to shut down or react impulsively. You can make decisions, even difficult ones, without second guessing yourself endlessly. You can rest into your experiences instead of bracing for impact, whether that’s a relationship, work, or personal growth. There’s no pressure to prove yourself or justify your worth to others, or even to yourself. There’s an energy of empowerment that others can sense, but most importantly, that you can feel internally.

It’s about creating a deep sense of trust and alignment within yourself so that you can meet life’s ups and downs with greater ease and confidence, and know that no matter the outcome you will always be okay.

Think about a time when you felt tense, or on edge, or ready to retreat. Maybe you were about to have a difficult conversation, or there was a moment when you needed to advocate for yourself, perhaps a job interview or in a conversation with a loved one. Your body likely responded before your mind did. You may have noticed physical discomfort: tightness in your chest, a lump in your throat, or even that feeling of wanting to crawl out of your skin.

These are all signs that your body isn’t feeling safe. And when we don’t feel safe, we shrink back, we hold ourselves in, or we disengage. We avoid stepping fully into the moment or showing up as the version of ourselves that we truly want to be. And the longer this goes on, the more disconnected we become from our natural senses of safety and trust.

Feeling safe in your body doesn’t just magically appear, especially if you’ve spent years pushing your discomfort down or avoiding confrontation. Feeling unsafe is a common experience for many of us. You’ve likely learned to carry and absorb the energies around you, other people’s emotions, expectations, and even the general intensity of the world. This can cause you to disconnect from your own physical sensations and inner guidance.

When we feel unsafe, we might physically tense up whether it’s bracing for something, holding our breath, or feeling like we’re walking on eggshells. That tension is your body telling you that something is not aligned. It’s a signal that your body is trying to protect itself, but it’s doing so by creating distance between you and what’s happening in the moment.

Your mind often steps in to compensate, sometimes in ways that aren’t helpful or supportive. Without an internal anchor of safety, it’s easy to fall into patterns of catastrophic thinking where every challenge or uncertainty feels like it could spiral into the worst possible outcome. This happens because your nervous system, which is primed for survival, stays on high alert, interpreting every small stressor as potential threats. Instead of seeing situations for what they are, you may feel stuck in a cycle of what ifs that magnify your fears and limits your ability to think clearly or take grounded action.

This lack of safety can also lead to decisions driven by fear, avoidance, or self-doubt. For instance, you might over commit to people pleasing behaviors, saying yes when you really mean no, because advocating for your needs feels too risky. Alternatively, you might withdraw from opportunities or relationships entirely, convinced it’s safer to stay small or invisible than it is to face possible rejection or failure. Over time these patterns can reinforce feelings of inadequacy, shame, helplessness, creating a feedback loop that keeps you disconnected from your true self.

When your body doesn’t feel like a safe place to process emotions or experiences, you may also develop coping mechanisms like over analyzing every interaction, suppressing emotions, or numbing yourself to avoid discomfort. These strategies might offer short-term relief but they ultimately deepen the sense of disconnection and make it harder to trust your instincts or inner wisdom. The result is often a pervasive feeling of being stuck, unable to move forward in ways that truly serve your highest good.

Rebuilding a sense of safety in your body can disrupt these patterns, offering you a foundation from which to approach challenges with clarity, courage, and self-compassion.

When it comes to you feeling safe in your body, the real challenge often isn’t about knowing what to do; it’s about addressing why you can’t access the tools you already have. The resistance, the inability to pause, the hypervigilance, these aren’t negative personality traits or failures. They’re protective mechanisms, deeply ingrained patterns that your mind and body created to keep you safe from something in the past.

These patterns are rooted in moments or experiences where your mind and body learned it couldn’t trust the world around you, or even itself.

One of the biggest barriers to feeling safe in your body is having a nervous system that’s been conditioned to stay on high alert. This is the walking around waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting for things around you to implode or go sideways, and doing everything possible to avoid these negative outcomes.

This view of the world can happen for many reasons. Maybe you grew up in an environment where you had to walk on eggshells, or perhaps there was a specific event where your body learned it needed to be ready for danger.

When your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, even small stressors can feel like threats. It’s not about whether the threat is real or whether it’s insurmountable, it’s about your body not knowing the difference anymore. This is why you might find yourself bracing, clenching, or withdrawing without consciously deciding to. It’s also why your mind spirals into catastrophic thinking. It’s not a flaw, it’s your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do: keep you safe and protect you.

Having ways to calm and soothe your nervous system are the shifts you want to make here. Inside the Crystal Self Healer member’s portal we focus on supporting the nervous system through tools and practices that work on multiple levels. For example, each month we gather for a collective crystal healing session that allows you to energetically reset the patterns that are keeping your nervous system in overdrive, as well as providing time and space for relaxation. This is a signal to your body that it’s safe to let go to just be.

Then there are group rituals that are designed to create predictability and connection. You’re not just engaging in practice, but training your body to trust again, to feel grounded in routines that nurture you instead of leaving you feeling drained. These rituals offer an anchor for your nervous system, something that you get to carry with you long after the ritual ends.

And with the workbooks and worksheets available inside the member’s portal you have an opportunity to uncover the internal stories keeping your nervous system on high alert, as well as getting support in creating new ones that instill calm and confidence.

I invite you to join me inside the Crystal Self Healer member’s portal to get immediate access to all of the tools, resources, and support that you need to help your nervous system remember what it feels like to be calm, centered, and whole. You can join today using the link in the show notes or go to my website to learn more.

To support you in soothing and calming your nervous system so you can feel safe in your body, I’m going to suggest working with Garnet.

Garnet supports you in grounding into your physical self and establishing a sense of wholeness, physical security, safety, and abundance. This helps to create a foundation where you can feel secure and at ease so you can release fears and insecurities.

Garnet activates the Root Chakra acting as an anchor, helping to bring your energy back into your body and into the present moment. This will help you regulate your nervous system so you can shift out of fight or flight reactive mode and into a more calm and centered way of being.

Garnet will support you in feeling trust in the flow of life and the universe. This will allow you to release the fear of uncertainty and lean into the idea that you are protected and provided for by the universe.

Finally, because Garnet helps you ground and soothe your nervous system you will be able to start dismantling patterns of chronic stress and overwhelm associated with being in survival mode. This will allow you to shift from fear-based thinking to a more autonomous and a powered way of thinking.

By tapping into the benefits of working with Garnet you begin to feel safe in your body, your nervous system will soften, and you’ll notice that everything starts to shift. You’ll begin to trust that your emotions and instincts are valid, that you’re capable of meeting life’s challenges, and that it’s safe to take up space as your highest self.

If you’re ready to claim this way of being, join me inside the Crystal Self Healer member’s portal. Together, we’ll not only explore emotional regulation but also create the deeper sense of safety in your body.

Today’s episode has been brought to you by Garnet and self safety. May we all create safety in our bodies, soothe our nervous system, and step into our highest and best self. Blessed be, my friends.

All right, my friends, that wraps up this week’s episode. Thank you for joining me here today on the Crystal Self Healer Podcast. If you haven’t already, hit subscribe, leave a review, and take the What Crystal is Best for You quiz linked in the show notes. Join me again next week as we continue to demystify crystals, how your brain works, and how you can use them so you can have more energy, get more done, and feel better every day.