# @adrimoench on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DAdyJCdPN2g
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63487279-adrimoench-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-09-28T15:14:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Trauma Informed Coach / Expanded States (@adrimoench) — https://gondola.cc/adrimoench

## Caption

9.29.24

Contemplation on projection & self expression…

That which lies beneath the surface is often the current projection we’ve internalized, which is being reflected back out into the world.

We project what we believe.
Beliefs are shaped by conditioning.
Conditioning is shaped by environment and/or experiences.

In the therapeutic container the client is never wrong.
However, when building safety and attunement, the container by which the client can challenge their beliefs that no longer serve them is where evolution happens. 

Therapy isn’t required for this shift to happen, it’s just often an accessible intervention point, to pathologize those who are needing “additional” support from a system that wasn’t built to support their needs. Yet many outgrow the therapy model when they realize that pathologization is a constriction.

When those needs aren’t being met, trauma often ensues. Trauma isn’t necessarily what happened to you, it can also be what didn’t happen to you. Neglect. The ignorance or denial of those needs, the minimization or complete disregard that there is a need further creates disconnect which leads to complicity conformity, assimilation or rebellion.

Healing doesn’t just look at the way by which we were pathologized by others, but in the way we took on the identity of the pathology as an externalized construct. Suffering can lead to pathology, and suffering can come from pathology. 

Projection is just the outward expression of internalized beliefs - a reflection of what is “safe” to express without rejection. 

Which begs the question: Is self actualized expression still projection?

Share your thoughts in the comments. 
Challenge my perception…

#dharma #traumahealing #compassionateinquiry #projection #selflove #dv #consciousness #awareness

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compassionateinquiry, selflove, projection, dv, dharma, consciousness, traumahealing, awareness

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