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.
Jessica Wheeler and Leaving the Mormon Church
Background Processes are the old logic and survival patterns running underneath — and Jessica Wheeler's entire upbringing had installed a deep background process: shelf your doubts, don't question, keep going. That process ran quietly for years, keeping her in the church even when things felt wrong. The temple ritual felt like a seance, the sacrament shame felt unfair, gay friends made her uncomfortable with church doctrine — and every time, the process fired: put it on the shelf, don't touch it. It took the CES Letter and her friend's confession to finally make her notice the process was running at all.