Founder Letter: True Safety
Dear Rosies,
Recently, we allied with a women's shelter and halfway house to bring them yoga mats, Reverence journals, and our 9-week self-study journal that shines light on our beliefs about our bodies (Body Love). The impact of creating a trusting space to explore these questions together is powerful! The inquiry into being free of unhelpful limiting beliefs is vital for people of all ages and stages of life, and under all conditions. In addition to books and the podcast, we have some offerings in this area:
Book Club Guide: One of our readers has put together a book club conversation guide for The Nine Lives of Woman. It can be used by any group wanting to dive into the material together. If this interests you, just reply to this email and we'll get you started with a book club kit.
Living Tantra is 6 weeks away. Our twice annual online course begins September 16. People have said its life changing, and the source of ongoing deep friendships. We would love to see you there.
Fall detox (medical or restorative) retreat weeks: 7 or 14 days, this September and November, in Hawai'i.
Continuing on the theme of finding liberation, today I'm writing about safety.
What if everything we've been taught about safety is backwards? It's a long essay aimed at opening an internal inquiry around how we relate to the world through trusting life. I hope you find it helpful and worth the time.
All love,
Christine
Christine Marie Mason
Founder, Rosebud Woman & Host, The Rose Woman Podcast
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True Safety: The Ground Beneath the Ground
Personally, I used to think safety was something I could build: walls high enough, savings accounts large enough, relationships secure enough, plans detailed enough. I spent years constructing elaborate fortresses against uncertainty, only to discover that the very act of building them kept me trapped in a chronic state of vigilance. The fortress became the prison.
But what is safety, really?
We live in a culture obsessed with risk management. We insure our cars, our homes, our lives. We create backup plans for our backup plans. We seek approval, accumulate resources, and try to control outcomes. These aren't wrong impulses; they arise from a genuine recognition of our vulnerability in an unpredictable world.
Yet something feels fundamentally off about this approach. No matter how much we secure externally, that underlying anxiety never quite disappears. The mind that believes safety comes from controlling circumstances is the same mind that can always imagine new threats, new variables that haven't been accounted for. It's an endless game that cannot be won because the rules keep changing.
I know people with tremendous external security (wealth, status, loving families) who still live in states of chronic fear. And I've met others who've lost everything and found themselves more at peace than ever before. The inner feeling of aafety and the outer sense of security are different phenomena.
