Where’s Your Sacred Place?
What is a “safe space?” Is it an environment that we can truly be ourselves? Is it where we surrender our insecurities or surrender to them? Is it even a place or is it the people we surround ourselves with? We’ve been thinking a lot about spaces in our lives and how we behave in them. For instance, the way we behave in the workplace is very different from how we are when we’re lounging on the couch binge watching Netflix or catching up with a friend.
It’s exhausting isn't it? Always changing our personalities and behaviors to properly suit the time and space we’re existing in. It’s constantly changing from day to day. As we sit in our kitchen and make our coffee and have our breakfast we’re already going through the day in its entirety in our minds. Bank before work. Presentation in the afternoon. Lunch with my boss. Dinner for the family. Homework with the kids. Quality time with a partner. Or whatever it is that fills your day, you get the idea.
That’s why having a safe space, or a sacred place as we like to call it, is so important. It’s a place where you feel most natural, most at rest and where you can recharge and reset, getting ready to do it all again the next day. It looks different for everyone. For us, we like a cozy blanket, or three. Pillows of every size and density. And it has to feel like us. Magazines, books, candles, a television and of course beautiful flowers always blooming to greet us after a long day. Who cares if we only get to enjoy them a day or two out of the week and they wilt and dry? It's our sacred place, not yours after all.
Human resilience is amazing when you think about it. Constantly adapting and re-adapting to new places, people and situations on the drop of a dime. It can be a lot, and when it gets overwhelming we find ourselves anticipating the time we get to return home, more specifically when we get to take it all off and just be. Exist in our security or lack thereof, exist outside of what’s socially normal and acceptable and relish the sacredness of our space. Our sanctuary. Our safe place. What’s in your sacred space? Let us know and hopefully Style Sonata is somehow apart of it.
