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ExerciseTraumaAdultTrauma-informed10 min

Safe Place Visualization

Build a vivid, personal image of safety and rehearse returning to it.

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Prompts

  1. 1

    Where is a place, real or imagined, where you feel at ease?

  2. 2

    Describe what you see, hear and smell there.

  3. 3

    Where in your body do you notice the ease?

  4. 4

    Give the place a one-word name to call on.

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