Background Processes
The fears, survival patterns, and old logic that keep running in your mind whether you notice them or not. Some were installed by you, some by your environment, some by people who raised you. This setting is not about stopping them — it is about whether you even know they are there.
Alex Cooper and the Relationship That Rewired Her
Background Processes captures exactly what happened to Alex Cooper here. The gaslighting from this relationship installed a hidden rule — 'your gut is wrong, you're crazy' — that kept running silently in every relationship after. Alex didn't choose to doubt herself in college or with Matt; that doubt was already running in the background, a program installed by someone else that she hadn't yet discovered or deleted.