EP. #147: 4 Steps for Managing Emotional Triggers

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you ever feel like you’re sucked back emotionally to a time when something painful happened to you? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All of those same painful feelings start flooding you again, like it was just yesterday? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or perhaps there is someone in your life who drives you nuts with their insensitive behavior or comments, and every time you see them, you feel these familiar uncomfortable feelings. </span></p> <p><strong>What you’re experiencing are emotional triggers. </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What happens when you’re triggered is that you’re reminded of something painful, and your brain will naturally direct you to dive back into that memory. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You may start overthinking the situation, reexamining it, obsessing about it, getting angry, or scared or hurt all over again.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You probably haven’t processed the emotions yet, or perhaps only partially.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re an emotional eater, there’s a good chance some of your triggers are feelings that you haven’t let yourself really feel because you distract yourself from them by eating. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you get triggered, your beastie brain takes the wheel, and makes it difficult for you to see that you have other options. That’s how triggers lead us to make bad decisions or react in ways that we don’t like. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But you do have other options. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To reclaim your power, you need to break that trigger pattern. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to learn the steps for  managing your triggers so they don’t take your power away.</span></p>