Arrested self-protection
Who protected you?
4 min readJan 28, 2021
Who protected you as a small child through your teen years and into young adult life?
Much of the conversation about anger focuses on explosive anger and out of control rage. The ruined relationships caused by lashing out or the devastating contempt on someone’s face or in their words. We can see these fight responses as unskillful attempts at self-protection.
