Safety behaviours are actions carried out with the intention of preventing a feared catastrophe. In the short-term they often give a sense of relief, but in the long-term they prove unhelpful. This information handout describes the essential features of safety-seeking behaviors.

This illustration helps explain the underlying dynamics and process of how childhood pain (roots) leads to a faulty sense of self, which in turn can lead to some form of dependency to cope with that pain, leading to problems to adulthood (fruit).

Safety behaviours are actions carried out with the intention of preventing a feared catastrophe. In the short-term they often give a sense of relief, but in the long-term they prove unhelpful. This information handout describes the essential features of safety-seeking behaviors.

When to seek help? Unhealthy Coping Skills are often the first sign that help maybe needed

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Ally| Trauma Integration Coach on Instagram: "What's the greatest life skill for navigating Freeze? ​ For a system to protect through freeze, all other survival attempts to seek safety have failed. What are other attempts? ​ - seeking safety through connection/relation (ventral) - seeking safety through fight (defending, bracing) - seeking safety through flee (running/moving away) - seeking safety fawn (suppressing one's own needs, limits and truth) - seeking safety through shutdown…

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When you feel that a client is at risk of suicide or self-harm, but they have not reached the level of severity required for involuntary hospitalization,...