Emotional Safety In Love: What I Had To Learn First

For a long time, I believed emotional safety was something a partner provided — through the right words, steady reassurance, or consistent presence. What I came to understand is that real emotional safety begins much closer to home.


In this episode, I share what emotional safety truly is — not as a theory, but as a lived experience. I talk about how it feels in the body, the internal work I had to do before I could create or sustain it in a relationship, and how my past shaped emotional triggers I once mistook for chemistry or passion.


We explore how maturity required relearning partnership from the inside out — moving from reactivity to regulation, from emotional urgency to inner steadiness. This is a grounded conversation about how emotional safety shows up behaviorally: in communication, boundaries, nervous system awareness, and emotional responsibility.


I also reflect on how cultivating inner stability quietly transforms intimacy — allowing love to feel calmer, more spacious, and deeply real.


This episode is for anyone who desires deep connection without emotional chaos — and is willing to begin that work within themselves first.


~ More About Sacred Leadership with Sherisse ~ 


Sherisse Alexander is an intuitive business coach, a business owner and entrepreneur and podcast host that is motivated by helping others to find meaning, purpose and fulfillment as leaders in their own lives. Be it a leader in your business, your family or ultimately simply a leader in your own life, the objective is the same…Sacred Leadership.


Sherisse has been a teacher, mentor and guide for many people offering sage wisdom, a voice of reason, compassion and understanding coupled with the keen intellect and strategy needed to navigate challenges that arise in both business and life.


Over the years, Sherisse has worked to refine and develop her skills as an intuitive and is a champion of anyone else who is open and willing to lean into the guidance that is offered to each and every one of us on a daily basis.


Sherisse’s goal is to create a sacred container that allows business owners and individuals the opportunity to meet her in that space with openness, vulnerability and a willingness to lean into and blend the journey of a spiritual being having a human experience into practical guidance that will yield results both personally and professionally.


https://www.pavitraleadership.com


sherisse@pavitraleadership.com


To get more of Sacred Leadership with Sherisse, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/sacred-leadership-with-sherisse/