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Throughout Finding Inner Safety I invite you to think about yourself and how my words relate to you. The issue of feeling safe is a deeply personal one. How could I not ask you to consider your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences?

I also share elements of my own story … I have hinted at this in my previous books but this time I felt it was necessary to share more. This book is definitely not a memoir but I share because I want you to know that I have lived what I talk about, and not just studied it or worked with it. It is amongst my most important values to ‘be the change’, which means that what I offer you comes from deep within me. I am someone who has lived and continues to live deeply and, for some reason, has been given a voice of influence and countless opportunities to help others through my own experience.

Ironically, writing Finding Inner Safety took me on a deep journey of healing in which I realized that not only did I need to stop downplaying my own story, but I had something to share that could help others. I found a deep compassion – for myself and for my family and ancestors and the struggles they'd undergone. And I explored one of my most important Why's? Why am Ihere? According to Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, we are here for a reason, to fulfil a life purpose – this is called our dharma. I have long realized that in doing the work that I do I am fulfilling my dharma but I hadn't realized how much writing this book was a vital part of that life purpose. As I wrote, something settled in me and I found an even deeper sense of inner safety. This is what happens when we find our dharma and I have watched this happen with many others too.

Many of you will have your own incredible stories too and in all of these stories, including mine, there are common themes – uprootings, awakenings, and realizations; dealing with challenges, going into one's depths to source clarity and resources, finding mentors and building supports that enable you to emerge differently with a deeper sense of inner safety.

I trust that you find inspiration, hope, and energy to embark on your journey. Maybe the sharing of my story will help you to understand your own story, shed your own tears, and find your own liberation.

My book is organized into four main parts, together with a Prologue, Introduction, and Epilogue. I start by telling a personal story that showed me, without doubt, why safety matters and where it really comes from.