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When self-reliance becomes self-defeating isolation

I cannot ask for help even when I desperately need it and it is destroying my relationships

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A protective part maintains hyperindependence to avoid vulnerability while exile parts suffer from unmet needs for support.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parts work and Internal Family Systems?”

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