Resources to inspire, equip, and encourage gentle rebels, deep thinkers, and highly sensitive people

Belonging

Belonging is a deep sense of unconditional acceptance at the level of being. The feeling can't be earned, bought, or sold. It starts within.

Exploring through a lens of belonging helps us notice areas of life we seek it through conditional acceptance, approval, and fitting in. We might notice the use of symbolic identity markers, tribal affiliations, and othering as an attempt to feel belonging. But as we see things from this perspective, we notice a discrepancy between the appearance and the feeling of belonging. This helps us re-frame and rewrite the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and others.

Where do you feel a sense of belonging right now?

How do you know that you belong?

What are the characteristics of belonging?

Belonging Archive

2023 | Wired For Safety

We are wired for safety. It’s how we survive as a social species. This need for belonging sits deep within. But what does it mean…

2022 | The Courage To Stand Alone

“Let’s hear it for the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” –…

2021 | Creating a Home Inside Ourselves

October is the month of ‘Belonging’ in The Haven, and we’re kicking off with a three-way conversation between Andy, Lindsay-Celeste, and Kendra on this theme.…

2020 | We’re Symptoms of a Peopling World

Belonging Introduction 

2019 | Between Everywhere and Nowhere