Your bias wasn't born. It was built. Brick by traumatic brick. We project our wounds onto entire groups. It's efficient. It's wrong. It's human. That person becomes every person who hurt you. That group becomes every threat you've survived. Prejudice is trauma looking for a target. Heal your trauma, and your prejudice loses its fuel. See people. Not projections. This is the part we don't talk about enough. The part where you realize your survival strategies have become your prison. The patterns that kept you safe then are keeping you trapped now. You're still responding to threats that don't exist anymore. Still protecting yourself from dangers that passed years ago. Your nervous system doesn't know the war is over. It's still scanning for enemy fire. Still sleeping with one eye open. Still ready to run, fight, or freeze at a moment's notice. And it's exhausting you. Draining your energy. Keeping you from the peace you think you should have earned by now. But here's what nobody tell...