How comforting to know that there is a place within that I can take refuge. When I am really triggered or scared, I can't always access it immediately but I know it's there and I know that the repetition or mantra will bring me back to that place of comfort.

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It's like have a special nook. I go to places like this waterfall (in Ancaster) to reconnect me to beauty and to help me slow down so I can access that soothing from within.

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Learning to self-sooth is essential to well-being. It's rather overlooked. So many of us didn't learn it adequately in childhood which forces us to seek soothing externally from alcohol, cannabis, work, relationships.

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Just start wherever you are. Even if you can't feel it, somewhere deep within, that special place of comfort awaits.