###### 🔑 There is nothing wrong with us [[🔑 Parts are not their burdens, roles, or strategies]], and neither are we. We might spend so much time [[💡 Emotional Dysregulation|dysregulated]] and with so many [[💡 Protector Parts|Protectors]] active that we start to identify ourselves as lazy, reactive, angry, or impulsive — but this is not true. We might feel broken, like we aren't good enough, like we're shameful or defective — that's not true either. We are not bad. Bad things happened to us and there are parts [[🔑 Protectors are dedicated to maintaining their idea of safety, balance and homeostasis|🔑 working tirelessly to look protect the wounds they left behind]]. We aren't "over-eaters," "[[🛡️ Addiction or Dependence|addicts]]," or "dysfunctional adult children" — we are human beings who frequently get stuck outside of our [[💡 Window of Tolerance|Window of Tolerance]]. We have an out-of-balance [[🔑 Our inner family is an ecosystem|ecosystem of parts]] who are doing the best they can [[🔑 Protectors are dedicated to maintaining their idea of safety, balance and homeostasis|🔑 to keep us safe and happy]] and help us in [[🔑 Each Protector thinks they know best|🔑 the best way they know how]], and that is nothing to be ashamed of. [[Protector Strategies 🛡️]] are not problems, they are attempts at solutions by parts who were much too young to cleanly take on that responsibility. There is nothing wrong with us, we just get [[💡 Blending|blended]] sometimes when an [[💡 Exiles|Exile]] is triggered and we sometimes can't recognize it until after our [[💡 Reactive Protectors|Reactive Protectors]] have done their jobs. When we're blended we see the world through our our Part's eyes, but [[🔑 There are no bad Parts|🔑 they have good intentions]] and [[🔑 Our symptoms and illnesses are never our fault|🔑 it isn't our fault]]. Regardless of how we got to where we are now, we are not bad, broken, defective, deficient, or "mentally ill." We are not our [[Medical Conditions and Diagnoses|medical conditions or our diagnoses]] — [[🔑 Psychiatric diagnoses are almost useless|🔑 a diagnoses is mostly useless]]. Further still, [[🔑 our inner and outer worlds are not separate]], and [[✍️ we live in a traumatized world]].