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Boy it sounds like a lot we're doing tonight, but it's really not there.

And then there'll be time for you to ask questions, then we'll be done, and all of that

will somehow be packed into an action-packed hour and 15 minutes.

Or actually not action-packed.

Because you'll just be watching a neurotic Jewish Buddhist

sit here in the Abberon for a while.

But I'll do my best. So the there's a very strong

attachment component to social anxiety.

We're all born with a core drive to connect with caregivers for protection and security.

We're all born with brains that essentially are set up

to seek ongoing connection and to ensure that connection by

vulnerability disclosing our emotions to others which signal our needs.

And to the degree that we get secure caregiving or attention in our earliest years establish attachment patterns or what's known clinically

is internal working models.

They're synonymous.

Internal working models are your underlying emotional expectations of how you

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