Here I am one week into my travels and how full it has been! Chi Nei Tsang training, dozens of exquisite Buddhist temples, receiving massage from blind massage therapists - I am in awe with an overflowing cup.

An experience for me overall is stepping far outside of my comfort zone. It is humbling to be a foreigner and minority in a culture. An experience of good medicine and compassion. In one night market in Chiang Mai, I kept sitting in inappropriate places and people were shooing me around 😂

To participate as best I can takes effort. I take time to learn some basic phrases so I can greet and thank people in their language. Learning etiquette and customs of the place where I am so I can be a respectful guest here.

This reminds me of the somatic skill, titration - taking in increments of experience outside of my comfort zone in order to increase my capacity.

I realize I have spent the last few years recreating a safe home base for myself after big life changes - leaving a spiritual community, getting divorced, recovery from health issues. I feel a new dimension of how this home base supports me to travel and explore today.

There were times in the recent past where my physical and mental health would not have afforded me the gift of world travel. During that time, I was doing deep foundational ground work including trauma healing, disordered eating recovery and getting on my feet financially.

My safe home base includes my actual house as well as the rituals and rhythms I weave into my life - yoga, support groups, healing therapies, meaningful work, quality time in nature and with loved ones.

How do you create your safe home base?