COURSE

Return To Safety - Healing The Habit Of Fear

This course is a 7-day healing journey for anyone who lives with quiet, chronic fear—even when everything looks fine on the outside. If your body is always bracing, your mind rarely rests, and you've grown used to feeling on edge, this course offers a gentle way home. With daily teachings and soothing meditations, you'll begin to unlearn fear as your default and rewire your nervous system for calm, safety, and trust. You don’t have to hold it all together anymore—peace is possible, and you're not alone. Come as you are—you're safe here.

Anxiety Authenticity Fear Secular Mindfulness Relaxation Meditation Stress Stress & Anxiety Health & Happiness Secular Visualization

Meet your Teacher

Karen Vos

Toronto, ON, Canada

Karen Vos is an intuitive guide and meditation creator who specializes in helping people reconnect with peace from the inside out. A storyteller at heart, Karen crafts meditative experiences that invite deep healing, emotional restoration, and nervous system calm. With decades of experience as an educator, speaker, and writer, she brings both wisdom and warmth to her work. In her Return to Safety course, Karen gently leads others on a journey of softening, rewiring, and remembering how it feels to feel safe again. She approaches this work with an open heart and a deep respect for the courage it takes to heal.

9 Days

168 students

4.9 stars

10 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Living In Survival Mode - Why Am I Still Afraid?

Many people live in a constant state of tension without even realizing it. When fear has been with you for years—maybe even since childhood—it becomes the background noise of your life. In this opening session, we gently explore what it means to live in survival mode: how it shows up in your body, mind, and relationships, and how it’s often misunderstood. This is not your fault. Chronic fear isn’t a sign of weakness—it’s a sign of adaptation. Today, we begin to name it, witness it, and open the door to something softer.

Lesson 2

The Habit Of Bracing - Always On Alert

For many of us, fear lives in the body long after the danger is gone. Maybe no one sees it, but inside, you're always scanning—waiting for something to go wrong. This is the quiet habit of hypervigilance: bracing for impact even in moments of peace. Today, we gently explore what happens when your nervous system doesn’t know how to stand down. You’ll begin to understand that this pattern is not your fault—it’s a brilliant survival response. And now, with care and awareness, it can begin to shift.

Lesson 3

When Safety Doesn’t Feel Safe - Learning To Feel Safe In Calm

Sometimes the hardest part of healing isn’t the pain—it’s the unfamiliar feeling of peace. When you’ve lived in a state of alertness for a long time, calm can feel unsafe, boring, or even threatening. Today, we explore why your nervous system might resist the very rest you long for. You’ll begin to understand that this isn’t self-sabotage—it’s protection. Through awareness and kindness, we begin to create a new inner association with calm: not as vulnerability, but as home.

Lesson 4

The Weight Of Carrying Fear - The Invisible Load

Fear isn’t just a feeling—it’s a weight you carry constantly, even if it’s invisible to others. It shapes your energy, your posture, your voice, and your relationships. Today, we gently explore how chronic fear can create exhaustion, tension, and a sense of disconnection from yourself and others. Recognizing this invisible load is the first step toward releasing it. This day invites compassion for the parts of you that have carried so much, and opens space for lighter, freer ways of being.

Lesson 5

Reclaiming Your Body’s Wisdom - Listening To Your Body’s Messages

Your body holds deep wisdom—signs and signals that reveal when you’re safe, stressed, or in danger. When chronic fear takes over, these messages can become confusing or muted. Today, we invite you to gently tune in and begin to recognize your body’s unique language. By learning to listen without judgment, you start reclaiming your body as an ally in your healing journey. This day is about cultivating curiosity and kindness toward yourself as you reawaken your internal compass.

Lesson 6

Building A New Baseline - Creating A Life That Feels Safe

Healing isn't just about releasing fear—it's about building new foundations of safety. Today, we explore how to begin shifting your inner baseline from survival to serenity. Using gentle, repeated cues of safety—through breath, environment, boundaries, and self-talk—you can begin to rewire your nervous system. You’ll discover that safety isn’t just a feeling that appears out of nowhere; it’s something you can consciously create, one small, powerful moment at a time.

Lesson 7

A New Relationship With Fear - From Fear To Inner Trust

Fear may still visit you—but it no longer has to run the show. Today, we honor how far you’ve come: from surviving in silence to listening, softening, and slowly reclaiming peace. You’ve begun to build a relationship with your nervous system rooted in trust, not fear. This final session is a gentle reminder that safety isn’t a destination—it’s a practice. Once you know how to return to, again and again. Your bravery has never been in hiding the fear—it’s in showing up with love anyway.

Lesson 8

Integration And Ongoing Care

Healing isn’t linear—and safety isn’t something you “achieve” and never lose. It’s a relationship you tend to, one breath and one choice at a time. Today is not a finish line, but a soft landing. We reflect on the practices, shifts, and quiet bravery that brought you here, and we plant seeds for how to keep returning to safety in daily life. This is your reminder: You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to stay close to yourself.

Lesson 9

Affirmation Meditation: Rewiring The Nervous System For Safety

These affirmations are not about forcing positivity—they're invitations to gently rewire the stories your nervous system has been telling for years. This short, calming meditation offers healing statements designed to meet the parts of you that have been bracing, doubting, or afraid. You don’t have to believe every word at first. Let them wash over you like soft waves, planting new seeds of safety, trust, and self-compassion. This is a practice of returning to yourself.

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Recent Reviews

Bruce

January 28, 2026

I learned feel it enough and fear becomes a habit. The daily reflections were thought provoking. I also learned there is no quick fix but to build on small daily rituals

Carolyn

December 26, 2025

Thank you for a life-changing course. I will be returning to it again and again.

Lorraine

November 3, 2025

It is an incredible blessing that I have been led here after decades of living with fear but not being aware it could be different. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 💚

Luís

September 12, 2025

😌🙏🏼✨❤️

Helen

September 10, 2025

Found this course at the perfect time, I will keep circling back to it when I need to reinforce and reconnect. Thankyou ❤️

Jonathan

September 8, 2025

Would have loved more of a closing to wrap It up on Day 9 to recap the course. Felt like it ended abruptly. Great overall though!

Eli

September 6, 2025

That was great. I recently attended a spiritual workshop and this course was exactly what I needed coining out of that and back into my new life!

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