Hello and welcome to our welcome back to Trinidad to Care. If you're listening in real time and you listen to last week's episode, you know that I talked about the process of learning to love yourself, going from enemies to lovers with yourself.

With that kind of theme in mind, I kind of wanted to expand on it and expand on this idea

that we sometimes are our biggest haters, which plays a huge role in how we interact with

other people and how we think other people perceive us.

When you have this insecure relationship with yourself where you don't really like yourself.

You tend to think that everyone else around you feels the same way and it's just a matter of

time before they leave you.

Obviously, there's more than one reason that we think that people are going to leave us or

reject us.

But the one thing that I want to talk about today is how our fear of abandonment is directly linked to our self

abandonment. A quote that I think demonstrates this really well is maybe you have a fear of

abandonment because you consistently abandon yourself to convince other people that you're

worthy of not being abandoned. So today we're going to talk about where the fear of abandonment stems from,

being afraid that people are going to leave us, what self-abandonment looks like,

and how you're going to overcome this fear of people leaving you.

So with all of that being said, let's get into today's episode.

I think where people get

confused when it comes to the fear of abandonment is they struggle with this fear of people leaving

them, but they haven't physically been abandoned. They look back at their childhood and they're like,

well, my parents were great to me. I had a great childhood. I don't understand why I'm so scared

of people leaving me. But it's not always a parent walking out on you or forgetting about you.

Most people haven't been physically abandoned as a child, but they may have been emotionally abandoned.

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