When we are triggered, it is not about the immediate situation we are in. Often – usually – our reaction stems from unresolved emotional issues that lie beneath the surface.
Imagine you are a weapon loaded with explosives and ammunition and ready to fire when you get triggered. You are loaded with all of the suppressed, unmet emotional needs and beliefs about yourself from your unmet needs in your childhood – when you were not heard, understood or seen, and could not talk to your parents about it because you didn’t want to upset them, or endure the consequences.
Or, if you did, they didn’t do anything about it and you were blamed or shamed for it. So you learned to stay silent, and formed a belief that you had to fight for yourself. The adult you are now continues to succumb to those triggers by either withdrawing, or resenting whoever triggered you.
While that underlying trauma is unresolved, it will continue to dictate your reactions, perpetuate your sense of victimhood when you’re triggered, and influence your relationships and interactions. That deep-seated trauma is running the show.
It’s affecting all areas of your relationships as it creates distance, conflict and misunderstanding. As a result, you feel alone, lonely and isolated.
But there is a healthier, more empowering and more helpful way to respond to your trigger.
See your triggers in a different light: instead of past trauma raising its head, they are showing you the parts of you that need to feel seen and met.
Once you learn to do that, I guarantee you that you will get less triggered - and when you do, you will respond differently and get a different result.
If this sounds like you, I’d love to help. I will show you how to:
work through your triggers, get better understanding of yourself and gently loosen the grip of your childhood trauma
build empowered, healthy boundaries
stay grounded, focused and sovereign over yourself, your mindset and your reactions
feel your feelings
connect with your body sensations
How It Works
Using the Compassionate Inquiry approach, we find the root cause of your trigger, which usually stems from earlier trauma. This keeps you in unconscious, unhealthy and toxic patterns of thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that affect how you see yourself and the world around you.
Compassionate Inquiry is a mind-body psychotherapeutic healing approach that slowly reveals the truth beneath the appearance that you present to the outside world in your life. You connect with your emotions and physical body sensations, get to the truth, and release layers of childhood trauma.
It goes further and deeper than talking therapy, and it’s not just about changing your thoughts and behaviours. As each layer is gently peeled off, the true sense of self can begin to emerge. This means you get to know the truth about the situation, and the layers of the conditioning that have been deeply ingrained in you.
In each session you’ll be safely held and gently guided to explore and journey deeper to find the root cause of your issues, so that at the end of the session you can expect to feel lighter, freer and kinder to yourself. These senses will extend to your close relationships, and will create and nourish a warm and loving connection with your loved ones.
This may be the first time you’ve considered therapy, or you may have tried other modalities such as counselling, CBT, psychotherapy and want to try something different: Compassionate Inquiry may be just what you need.
If you’re ready to Thrive, then I’d love to receive and support you; you can find the details below.