You saw your worst fears in everyone else. That's projection wearing camouflage. When someone triggers you instantly. When you hate someone you've just met. When you assume the worst without evidence. Ask: what part of me am I refusing to see? Your triggers are your teachers. Your judgments are your mirrors. Your triggers are maps. Follow them inward. That's where the real work lives. 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 ...