How to Feel Safe in Your Body: A Loving Return to Trust, Presence, and Vitality

Part of the How to Feel Safe in Your Body Series
By Luz María Campuzano | Soul Prompt Coaching

Your body has been with you since the very beginning.
It remembers everything.

The warmth of your mother’s womb.
The story of your first breath.
The arms that have held you. The griefs that have shaped you.
The words you’ve spoken—and the ones spoken over you.

It has never left you.
Even when you left it.
Even when you stopped listening.
Even when you fed it judgment instead of nourishment.
Even when you were afraid of what you might feel inside its walls.

Your body stayed.
Not as punishment. Not as a burden.
But as a devoted witness to your soul’s journey on Earth.

As Dr. Bessel van der Kolk teaches in The Body Keeps the Score, the nervous system remembers what the mind cannot process. Trauma isn’t just a memory—it’s an experience encoded into the body’s tissues, breath patterns, and cellular memory.

Stephen Rosenberg, in Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve, reminds us that safety is not a concept—it’s a felt experience. It’s the gentle rhythm of your breath returning to your belly. The vagus nerve coming online again after years of high alert. The body is saying: “I trust you.”

So how do we come home to a body we may have abandoned?

How do we feel safe inside ourselves again?

We begin with love.
We begin with relationship.
We begin by remembering: this body has always loved you.

Your Body Is the Story of You

Every cell within you is a soul in motion.
A vibrating intelligence, coded with your lineage, your choices, your experiences—and your capacity for rebirth.

Your body holds the memory of the way you’ve loved and the way you haven’t.
It holds the echo of every thought you’ve projected onto it.
It remembers every time you spoke to it unkindly, ignored its signals, or punished it with substances or restriction.

And yet…
It still loves you.

Unconditionally.
In real time.
Without resentment.

It wants nothing more than to be held by you again—not as a thing to control or fix, but as a living, breathing universe that is yours.

Your body is not asking you to be perfect.
It is asking you to be present.

To feed it foods that energize, not deplete.
To move it in ways that feel like devotion, not punishment.
To speak to it gently.
To override the critical thought with a loving one.
To offer it something sacred every day—breath, movement, music, touch, stillness, meditation.

Because when the body is loved, it responds.
It pulses with vitality.
It glows.
It vibrates with youthfulness, strength, and clarity.
It becomes a temple where communication flows again. You speak—and it answers.

Safety, then, is not a destination.

It’s a dialogue.
It’s a practice.
It’s a relationship you rebuild—one sacred act at a time.

If you feel afraid of your body, know this:
You are not alone.

We live in a world that taught us to numb, perform, and override—
That told us productivity mattered more than presence.
That normalized disconnection and disguised trauma as toughness.

So many of us retreated into the mind, hoping to “think” our way out of suffering.

But the body…
It doesn’t follow logic.
It follows truth.

It speaks in sensation, in tightness, in vibration. In illness, if it must.

And when it’s been ignored for too long, it will speak louder.
Not to punish—but to call you home.

The most beautiful part of this entire journey?
It’s never too late.

Your body is not keeping score to shame you.
It is keeping score because it wants to heal with you.

And healing begins in the now.
It begins with a single phrase:
I love you.

Say it aloud. Even if your voice shakes.
Whisper it with your hand over your heart.
Say it in the mirror. Say it when you stretch. Say it when you cry.

Your body will hear you.
And in time—it will say it back.

This is how the fear begins to dissolve.
This is how the nervous system softens.
This is how the light returns to your cells.

You Are the Safe Place You Seek

The body you live in—the one you were born into, the one that has held every chapter of your life—is not just a vehicle.

It is a beloved.
It is a teacher.
It is a map of your evolution.

And it is ready—right now—to begin again with you.

All it needs is your love.
The same love it’s given you all along.

Practices to Begin Rebuilding Safety:

• Say “I love you” to your body daily—even if it’s hard. Especially then. Say it until you feel it.
• Offer a daily moment of sacred nourishment: a stretch, a dance, a breath, a piece of fruit eaten slowly.
• Notice when unloving thoughts arise—and gently offer a new one in return.
• Read the signals with compassion: fatigue, pain, tension—are all communication, not failure.
• Place your hand on your heart or belly and simply say: “I’m here now.”

With so much love and gratitude, Luz Maria

van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. Viking.

Rosenberg, S. J. (2017). Accessing the healing power of the vagus nerve: Self-help exercises for anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism. North Atlantic Books.