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Stop Weaponizing Your Competence & Start Feeling Safe As You Are

Needy

CHAPTER

You Can't Keep Yourself Safe by Being Good

Many of our coping mechanisms and, you know, behavioral patterns show up this way, right? We kind of cooked them up in our brains when we were children. And the first problem with this is that you cannot keep yourself safe by being good. This kind of safety, if I am good enough, no one will abandon me, is an illusion at its very core.

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