Feeling Safe & Standing Strong
Feeling tense, reactive, or like you're holding more than you have to carry? You're not imagining it, and you're not alone.
If you're looking for practical, plain English tools to understand your nervous system, have kinder conversations with yourself and others, and feel a little steadier in your own skin, you're in the right place.
Each episode gives you body-based practices, real conversations, and simple frameworks you can reach for in the moments that matter. In all relationships, not just at work and in the quiet moments when you just need to settle. No jargon, no pressure, nothing that requires a psychology degree to use.
The more you listen, the more you'll find these tools showing up naturally, when a conversation gets hard, when the day gets heavy, when you need to come back to yourself.
Hosted by Bronwyn Clee, Trauma Responsive Psychosocial Coach and Educator and Co-Founder of The Institute of Hope, in partnership with Protective Behaviours International.
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Feeling Safe & Standing Strong
Episode 5: Boundaries are Safety in Action
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Boundaries aren’t walls. They’re signals that help us protect what matters and feel safe in ourselves. In this episode, we explore how boundaries show up in daily life and why they’re essential for healthy relationships and self-respect
Informed by Universal Protective Behaviours, Pillar One: We all have the right to feel safe. In this episode, we explore how boundaries are a way we put this into practice.
Somatic Practices in this episode: **Somatic practices are simple ways of listening to and supporting our body so that we can respond with more clarity and care.
- ✋ Wall-Press Grounding — strength, firm stance
- 🗣️ Boundary Rehearsal (Voice & Movement) — clear voice, speaking up
(You’ll be guided through these in the episode, and please know they can be done at a desk or adapted while walking.)
✨ Feeling Safe Standing Strong is brought to you by The Institute of Hope (IOH) in collaboration with Protective Behaviours International (PBI).
🌏 I have the privilege of living, loving, learning, and creating on Larrakia Country and I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.
🔗 Find out more at www.theinstituteofhope.com.au or www.protectivebehavioursinternational.net
