###### 🔑 Presence-ing Protectors are not Self-led While some [[💡 Protector Parts|Protectors]] authentically express [[Qualities of Presence ☀️]] and are full of love for us and our other parts, they aren't [[💡 Self-Leadership|💡 Self-Led]]. They have an agenda to change, fix, or heal parts. This is a loving, [[🔑 There are no bad Parts|🔑 benevolent intention]], but [[🔑 Presence has no agenda|🔑 Presence does not have an agenda]]. Some [[💡 Protector Parts|Protectors]] who use this [[Protector Strategies 🛡️|Protector Strategy 🛡️]] aren’t always sincere when they convey the [[Qualities of Presence ☀️]]. Internally they behave like [[💡 Presence]] to make [[💡 Parts|Parts]] feel better[^1] and keep [[💡 Exiles]] out-of-mind.[^2] Externally, they might make us nice, polite, and caring so people will like us and think we're decent. They also keep certain [[💡 Parts|Parts]] they don’t approve of [[💡 Exiles|hidden]] so people don't see them.[^3] [^1]: [[📖 Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition]] Ch 10, Self-Like Proactive Protectors [^2]: [[📖 Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition]] Ch 13, Detecting Parts [^3]: [[📖 🟢 No Bad Parts - Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model]]