How to become more aware of your projections:
1. Psychological projection
Notice that every time you are triggered, or any way in which you idolize somebody, you are projecting a disowned part of yourself.
2. Projection onto the world
List 10 things that are... See more
i dont know who needs to hear this but the inner core of your "personality" is the series of tricks you used to get your parents' attention when you were two, which is to say your first survival mechanism, which was so load-bearing you never were able to abandon it and instead you have only lacquered it with layer upon layer of accretion until you... See more
i used to be pretty 'traumatized' in the classic sense - nightmares, difficulty sleeping, etc. Over the course of a 1-2 years I managed to fix nearly all of it. I used a lot of techniques - but one thing that was noticeably absent in my healing was psychological narrative. 1/
Thread on healing trauma — unnecessary need to understand psychological narratives (“why?”)
What is projection?
1. Psychological projection
If there are aspects of ourselves that we cannot own, we project those aspects onto other people. This happens especially when we are triggered.
This can also happen with positive qualities. When you put someone on a pedestal –... See more