Working with Dr. Shelley Kerr
#5
#5
Creating a sense of safety
Creating a sense of safety
Creating a sense of safety
Simple imagery practices to help your mind and body settle more.
CFT
Post Video Reflection
Post Video Reflection
Notice
Which image helped you feel most supported: the compassionate colour, calm place or compassionate being?
Which image helped you feel most supported: the compassionate colour, calm place or compassionate being?
Try
Try
Record a one-minute description of your calm place or compassionate being so you can return to it without rebuilding it each time.
Record a one-minute description of your calm place or compassionate being so you can return to it without rebuilding it each time.
Live
Live
During your next difficult moment, what might your compassionate being want you to know or do?
During your next difficult moment, what might your compassionate being want you to know or do?
I've answered these (e.g. in my notebook)
Session Recap
01
Use imagery to support rest
Compassionate imagery is not another technique you must perform correctly to make yourself sleep. Its purpose is to help you feel safer and less alone with the struggle, whether or not sleep follows immediately.
01
Use imagery to support rest
Compassionate imagery is not another technique you must perform correctly to make yourself sleep. Its purpose is to help you feel safer and less alone with the struggle, whether or not sleep follows immediately.
02
Support can be remembered or imagined
A compassionate presence could be a person, animal, natural element or completely imagined figure. The important qualities are that it feels wise, strong, non-judgemental and firmly on your side when sleep is difficult.
02
Support can be remembered or imagined
A compassionate presence could be a person, animal, natural element or completely imagined figure. The important qualities are that it feels wise, strong, non-judgemental and firmly on your side when sleep is difficult.
03
Imagery does not have to be visual
You do not need to create a clear picture in your mind. A sound, colour, physical sensation, memory or general sense of being somewhere safe can all be forms of imagery. What matters is whether it gives you some sense of comfort, support or safety - not whether you are “doing it correctly.”
03
Imagery does not have to be visual
You do not need to create a clear picture in your mind. A sound, colour, physical sensation, memory or general sense of being somewhere safe can all be forms of imagery. What matters is whether it gives you some sense of comfort, support or safety - not whether you are “doing it correctly.”
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Building your compassionate self
Building your compassionate self
Learning to respond to yourself with kindness and care when things feel difficult.
Learning to respond to yourself with kindness and care when things feel difficult.
An ACT & CFT based approach helping you to improve your relationship with sleep.
Sluzzle offers educational help for everyday sleep challenges and isn’t designed for medical sleep disorders.
©2026 Sluzzle - All rights reserved. Address: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE
An ACT & CFT based approach helping you to improve your relationship with sleep.
Sluzzle offers educational help for everyday sleep challenges and isn’t designed for medical sleep disorders.
©2026 Sluzzle - All rights reserved. Address: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE
An ACT & CFT based approach helping you to improve your relationship with sleep.
Sluzzle offers educational help for everyday sleep challenges and isn’t designed for medical sleep disorders.
©2026 Sluzzle - All rights reserved. Address: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE