When Fear and Exhaustion Shape Personality: Exploring Cluster C Traits

An affirming guide to safety-seeking styles shaped by anxiety and over-control. Using memorable metaphors—armor (avoidant), anchors (dependent), knots (obsessive-compulsive), and the tightrope (chronic anxiety/over-functioning)—the book translates clinical language into everyday sense. With self-checks, stepwise skills, and a 7-day safety-practice plan, readers learn when protections still serve and when to loosen them. Integrating CBT, Gestalt, and psychodynamic tools, it helps people trade relentless vigilance for flexible boundaries, rest, and relationships that feel secure without being rigid.