So Long, Insecurity by Beth Moore
Week 7: Chapter 6 — Why We Need Each Other and Why We Fear Each Other
Read Chapter 6 of So Long, Insecurity. Key Scripture: Proverbs 27:17; James 4:1-2
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Beth turns to one of the most complex and tender topics in this book: the way women simultaneously need other women and wound other women — often because of shared insecurity.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Beth observes that female friendships can be among the most nourishing relationships on earth — and also among the most treacherous. What has been your experience of female friendship: more nourishing or more wounding, and why?
2.She names the particular pain of female-on-female comparison and competition — the undercurrent of "How do I measure up to her?" that can poison even good friendships. When are you most prone to sizing up another woman? What triggers it?
3.Beth is honest that insecure women can be inadvertently destructive — they gossip, undermine, exclude, or compete in ways rooted not in malice but in their own pain. Can you think of a time when your own insecurity caused you to behave in a way that hurt another woman?