One significant environmental factor is the extent to which we felt safe and secure as children.
This sense of security is greatly influenced by family and home factors:
- the temperment of the household (mood, the chaos v. structure continuum, consistency, etc.)
- the consistency and quality of our parents' relationship
- our relationship with each parent
- financial stability
- our sibling and extended-family relationships
The less predictable each of these factors, the more we're likely to depend on some method of self-soothing.
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