Get Untrapped

Get Untrapped

Phase 1: Recognition — See the Pattern

The Projection Trap

How unhealed wounds spill into parenting and burden children with battles that aren’t theirs.

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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
Sep 09, 2025
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It shows up in the smallest ways.

A child hesitates before speaking — and suddenly you snap, because their hesitation reminds you of your own childhood fear of “saying the wrong thing.”

Or your teenag…

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