What is a trigger?
A trigger is when something in our present moment elicits a very big emotional reaction.
This intense emotional reaction is about something we're carrying with us from our past experiences—past pain and past unmet needs that the current experience reminds us of. The current event, in a way, is being filtered through this painful emotional baggage from our past.
The emotions that emerge when we're emotionally triggered or emotionally activated are a mind-body experience that is actually real and valid.
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"Our triggers are teachers. Our work is just to see them that way." Dr. Nicole LePera
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