Alongside cultivating a life with stability, safety, and security, we can cultivate a support system to turn to when challenges (or chaos!) arise. Do you have a select group of people you can turn to when you need help? Are you even able to ask for help when you need it? Asking for help is not a weakness! Still, for many of us, we've been conditioned or molded into "independent" thinkers who see asking for support as being weak. Needing support is normal + human, though it does require vulnerability. Asking for support, though, will be much easier if we cultivate systems of support in which there is reciprocity.