I came across this fabulous post of Martha Beck about projection. I particularly like the hilarious story with her babysitter (even though I’m slightly worried for her kids, hope they are ok…) Projection is the tendency we all have, to varying degrees, to use other people like blank screens so that we can deflect our own issues onto them . We do this when we have difficulties integrating a feeling or an personal issue we are experiencing . So the feeling or the issue is here, nagging us, but we don’t want them to be ours; we can’t accept...