005: Addressing Our Triggers
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Happy holidays to all! And with the holiday season upon us, let's make a collective promise to keep cool heads as we're tossed in all sorts of crazy directions!
To do that, we have to understand our triggers. Triggers are the emotionally charged reactions that we have when our comfortable state of "normal" is somehow tested. Did someone cut you off recklessly on the highway? Did you feel that surge of anger? That's a trigger. Did you find out all your friends were invited to a holiday party and you weren't? Did you feel that surge of jealousy? Another trigger!
This week on the show, we're talking about triggers, how they hit us, how we can better understand them, and most importantly how we can create a new habit of curiosity in our triggers as we learn to understand ourselves in the process!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the adult chair. I'm Pete Wright and I am here once again with |
| 0:08.7 | Michelle Schalfont. Michelle, how are you? |
| 0:11.5 | Hi Pete, I'm doing great, thank you. |
| 0:13.9 | So glad to talk to you again. |
| 0:15.6 | How are your holiday preparations? |
| 0:19.4 | They're going really well. |
| 0:20.5 | I've decided to do my shopping. When I do it on the weekends I go out at |
| 0:24.9 | like six or seven in the morning and nobody is out. It's the best. |
| 0:30.0 | That actually that surprises me. I feel like with the we're sort of in a culture of |
| 0:33.7 | Black Friday hooliganry yeah it seems like the six in the morning is going to be when |
| 0:38.7 | everybody goes out no I was out yesterday morning and it was phenomenal. |
| 0:45.0 | There was nobody out. |
| 0:46.0 | Sunday morning, 6 o'clock in the morning, nobody was out. |
| 0:48.6 | And the stores are open because the stores are also hooligans. |
| 0:52.3 | I hit five stores in an hour and a half and I was |
| 0:54.7 | done. That was phenomenal. That's a marathon. I feel like there's an instructional |
| 1:01.3 | e-book waiting that's just boiling up in you about |
| 1:04.0 | how to make the best use of your time. I knew what I needed and I had a couple of returns |
| 1:07.8 | and I was in and out I was the only person in most stores is fantastic. That's |
| 1:11.7 | fantastic. And's fantastic. |
| 1:13.6 | And what a perfect way to sort of kick off this conversation |
| 1:16.8 | we're having today, right? |
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