Top Highlights

• Insecure individuals don’t know how to explicitly ask others for what they want.
• When directed to state clearly what they want from others, insecure individuals experience a surge of anxiety which stops them.
• Social situations are often terrifying for insecure individuals. It may seem bizarre to some that the closer they get to others, the greater the fear they experience because the stakes become so much higher.
• Many insecure individuals who struggle in the above areas experienced childhood abuse and/or disruptions with their primary emotional caregivers through divorce, trauma, incest, suicide, parental abandonment, parental drug addiction, or daycare in significant quantity.
• In the secret core of their heart, insecure individuals believe no connection to another human being will ever be truly secure.