The Maslow's Hierarchy: A Pyramid of Safety

This is the state that many of us will get stuck in. We desperately try to move on to the level after this, which is love and belonging. But if we haven't addressed our safety needs, energetic safety, emotional safety, sometimes physical safety, we can't get to the love and belonging stage. If you're growing, you have to leave your comfort zone. That's going to be uncomfortable. And if you're in a defensive state, discomfort feels like attack. Well, and there's a reason that the Maslow's hierarchy is often presented in that pyramid form because those lower levels are your foundation. You can't do any of the work in the upper levels until those lower

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