Hey there, welcome to Going Scared. I'm Jessica Honecker, founder of the World Changing

Brand New Day Collection, and I'm so glad to have you here for today's conversation.

Our Going Scared community gathers here every week for direct and honest conversations

that help you live a life of courage by leaving comfort and going scared.

Welcome back to our new series, No Thy Self. This new series is your step-by-step guide

to discover how to know yourself. They are short, 30-minute conversations, and they are

going to give you the ability to step out of your own experience, observe your feelings

and with compassionate curiosity, choose how to respond instead of react. And there was

only one way to kick off this series with my therapist. That was the only way to start

this journey. My therapist, Dr. Kurt Thompson, I couldn't start a new series about knowing

yourself without you hearing from the person who has helped me to know me more than anyone.

Listen in today because we are going to talk about attachment styles, which is just a fancy

therapist term for how you bonded and received security from your caregivers when you were

a little babe. We start here first because before we can actually change, we have to become

aware of the habits and structures that got us to where we are now and much of how we

got to where we are now happened a very, very long time ago. That's where we begin. In

today's episode, you are going to begin to understand how your early life influences

your relationships, your resilience, and your courage today.

Kurt, thank you for joining us. I do believe you are for sure our first guest to be on the

show basically for the fourth time. So, well, I can only say that I hope it's not the

last. Oh, well, we're doing a series called Know Myself and really there is not anyone else

in the world who's helped me know myself more than you. So, I couldn't actually have the

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