How can you tell if you’re facing a Secondary Emotion?

• Social Anxiety causes you to people please = Surface

• Anger causes you to lash out = Surface

• Insecurity causes you to judge others = Surface

• Depression causes you to numb = Surface

Underneath these surface feelings are core emotions that, left unaddressed, will keep leading to reactive behavior and emotional rollercoasters 🎢.

A sure sign that you’ve uncovered a core emotion…

Anxiety is a natural response to threat. 

Codependency is when you overly rely on others to get your emotional needs met: The need to feel loved, valuable, good enough, or calm.

If the threat at the root of your anxiety is other people’s opnions, your anxiety might actually be codependency.

Read for the 3 statements to begin to reclaim your peace.