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The Original Decision

The Original Decision is an early conclusion about your own acceptability, made with incomplete information and treated as fact ever since.

I look at where that conclusion shows up now.

A person might overexplain, withdraw or perform confidence to avoid feeling exposed. In the Protocol, I help him name the conclusion underneath that protection and test its predictions against what happens when he acts differently.

See how the identity work fits together