SAFE ENOUGH Quotes

“If you are regulated, if choice is intact, and if engagement is voluntary on both sides, you may proceed. If any of those conditions are not present, you do not.”
― Scott Austin Martin, SAFE ENOUGH: A Training In Masculine Containment and Relational Safety

“Interest, attention, or closeness begin to carry the weight of validation. In that state, rejection does not register as disappointment alone. It registers as threat.”
― Scott Austin Martin, SAFE ENOUGH: A Training In Masculine Containment and Relational Safety