56. Strength - Relationships: Projections, Internalisations and Introjections.

🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.

🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.

🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.

🌿 Projection
Projection is when we unconsciously attribute our own difficult feelings, thoughts, or impulses to someone else. Instead of recognising “this is happening inside me”, the mind experiences it as coming from the outside. Projection can temporarily reduce anxiety but often distorts relationships and increases misunderstanding.

🌿 Introjection
Introjection is the unconscious process of taking in the attitudes, voices, or expectations of others and treating them as if they were one’s own. This often develops early in life, especially in close or dependent relationships. An inner critical voice, for example, may be an introjected parent or authority figure rather than a true reflection of the self.

🌿 Internalisation
Internalisation is a broader and more integrated process in which experiences of relationships, values, and emotional regulation become part of the internal world. When internalisation is healthy, it allows a person to self-soothe, hold multiple feelings, and relate to others with greater stability and choice rather than fear or compulsion.