Healing Unmet Emotional Needs-Chapter 4

1.) Choose one unmet emotional need from childhood and share how this unmet need has impacted your life today.  What changes do you need to make now that you realize this is an unmet childhood need?

2.) What happens in the search of mothering?

3.) What must be identified and dealt with before we can receive from those who God has provided to meet your emotional needs?

4.) What do you do if you have discovered you have many unmet needs?

5.) When a heart is not healed from the pain of the past what is developed in a person’s life?

6.) What is the difference between a healthy family and an unhealthy family?

7.) What causes you to expect the same rejection and abandonment, or whatever pain you have experienced in the past? (This is the same thing that causes you to believe an illusion and tells you that everything in the future will be just like it was in the past.)

8.) List some coping skills individuals develop in order to deal with the pain of their past.

9.) Dr. Henry Cloud says “People who are fearful of emotional attachments” live in what? Why do they live this way? Who has their answer? (Please answer all 3 questions)