Maria Goff on How to Feel Safe and Secure in Your Own Life

Primal Question

Mike Foster

Self-improvement, Counseling, Sleeping At Last, Emotional Health, Health & Fitness, Anxiety, Relationships, Inspiration, Society & Culture, Suicide, Annie Downs, Unspoken Podcast, Depression, Addiction, Mike Foster, Rachel Hollis, Education, Therapy, Mental Health

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the "Primal Question" podcast, host Mike Foster sits down with Maria Goff to explore the primal question (Q1), "Am I Safe?" Maria shares her journey of understanding and embracing her need for safety, a concern rooted in childhood trauma. The conversation delves into how this primal question influences her relationships, marriage, and parenting. Maria highlights the importance of creating environments where people feel safe and valued, drawing from her experiences at the retreat center she and her husband Bob run. They also discuss the balance between vigilance and living fully, and how faith plays a crucial role in navigating feelings of safety. Through heartfelt stories and practical insights, this episode offers a deep dive into transforming fear into a powerful gift for oneself and others. Maria Goff is a speaker, author, and retreat center co-founder dedicated to creating safe spaces for personal growth and transformation. Alongside her husband, Bob Goff, Maria runs a retreat center where they host events designed to help individuals find clarity, purpose, and peace.

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0:00.0	I think the best way to describe it from me is early on in our marriage I knew that I had a propensity to be conscious of is something safe
0:08.4	Anytime you can take something and turn it into a trauma and turn it into something good in your life.
0:13.5	It's actually a gift.
0:14.6	One of the things in the research around this question of
0:17.2	Am I safe is part of our scramble tends to be hypervigilance,
0:20.5	but also part of our primal gift tends to be paying attention to the risk
0:24.7	management of something. One of my primary desires is to make sure the people
0:29.9	around me feel safe and there's a lot of benefit to that because a lot of us
0:33.8	whether it's wondering if we feel safe or not it's giving them that environment
0:38.9	so they can become themselves.
0:42.0	Hey friends, welcome to the Primal Question Podcast.
0:46.8	I'm Mike Foster.
0:49.2	And the whole goal of this podcast is just to help us understand the things that drive us.
0:55.0	What I like to call the thing underneath, the thing that drives everything and
1:00.0	so often we live our lives in confusion or we're not sure or there's sort of this fog inside of us.
1:08.8	And we just can't figure out like what's going on.
1:11.6	And so hopefully the conversations that we have here will just bring greater clarity to kind of that core emotional need that you have that deeply influences your life and your relationships.
1:24.3	And I'm really excited about today's conversation because I get to talk to a very good friend,
1:30.5	Maria Gough. And Maria, I am so glad you're here and I'm so glad we get to talk about your
1:36.7	primal question let's just get right into it because first all you and I have the same primal question which is question one.
1:45.0	Am I safe?
1:47.0	Yep.
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