Every moment of being triggered is actually a moment pregnant with great light and blessings for you.

And whether you react or restrict is what affects whether you actually receive that great light or whether you're pushing

it away. Hello and welcome to spiritually hungry. Today we're talking about something many of

the heard said or didn't say but felt and that is I'm triggered., this is a word that triggers many people.

It's something that's become very popular, and we don't want to make anybody's feelings

feel unimportant.

So there are moments that something happens, and our emotional reaction is immediate, intense,

and somehow outsized.

It feels personal and more intentional than the moment may warrant.

A comment, a tone, being dismissed, being ignored, being criticized, seeing an injustice,

and suddenly this thing rises inside of us and we are triggered. And again, we're not dismissing

anybody's feelings, but we want to understand this

more deeply. So the trigger seems like it's something external, but it's connecting to something

internal, maybe a wound that we have, a fear, a memory, an insecurity or an unmet need. And

it's interesting. I was reading something that Dr. Becky Kennedy said. She was talking

about how, and it's in the book, you know, the body keeps the score. There are certain memories we

have even from our childhood, our first experiences where let's say we were yelled at or reprimanded.

And we can't necessarily even access those experiences or those

memories, but our body can. And then later, when we start to react, we show up in that way for

other people because we're trying to protect ourselves. It's our experience we had. Let's say

we did something. We were yelled at. Then when our child does something, we yell at them.

And we're trying to, we're trying to protect them in a sense, but it's also what we learned.

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