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Phase 2: Untrapped Awareness

The Quitting-Too-Soon Trap
When progress feels invisible, and the quiet makes you question everything.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Gratitude Trap
When ‘Thankful’ Becomes Self-Abandonment in Disguise
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Chemistry Trap
When attraction drowns out information.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Burnout Trap
When giving until there’s nothing left robs you of patience, presence, and joy.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Projection Trap
How unhealed wounds spill into parenting and burden children with battles that aren’t theirs.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Comparison Trap
When measuring yourself against other parents keeps you from seeing the child you actually have.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Lucky Trap
When people reduce your survival to luck and erase the hell it took to get here.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Parent Traps
Parenting doesn’t just shape our children — it exposes the patterns, fears, and unhealed stories we carry with us.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Manipulation Trap
When Love Becomes Leverage Used Against You
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Parenting Guilt Trap
Why parents feel like they’re failing — even when they’re not.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
The Self-Silencing Trap
When keeping quiet costs you more than speaking up
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
When Gratitude Becomes a Career Trap
Gratitude for a paycheck shouldn’t keep you stuck.
 • Shannon | Self-Trust Architect
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