452: Summer Series - Untriggered: How to Protect Your Peace in Any Situation
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Becoming Untriggerable: A Journey to Emotional Freedom
A trigger is defined as an external or internal event that evokes a strong emotional response, often negative, such as anger, sadness, or anxiety. Tonya Leigh shares her personal experience of being triggered during her father's celebration of life, where she felt intense anger due to a perceived boundary violation. This moment of rage was not just an isolated incident; it reflected deeper feelings and unresolved issues within her.
Tanya encourages listeners to view triggers as invitations to look within themselves. Instead of reacting impulsively, we can take a moment to pause and reflect on why we are feeling a certain way. This self-exploration can lead to profound insights about our past experiences, beliefs, and values.
Tune in for insights on managing emotions and fostering a peaceful mindset.
Talking Points:
00:47 - Personal Trigger Experience
03:05 - Understanding Triggers
05:02 - Lessons from Triggers
07:00 - Loving Difficult People
10:46 - The Quest to Be Untriggered
14:25 - Common Reactions to Triggers
18:41 - Childhood Reactions to Triggers
23:04 - Steps to Handle Triggers
32:00 - Achieving Peace Through Triggers
Quotes:
"I felt like I could hit someone. I was so triggered."
"When you are so easily triggered, you are out of control in your own life."
"Accepting I am a human being having a human emotion right now and this emotion is here to teach me something."
"At the end of the day, I really do think that we all just want to be loved. We all want to be understood and we all just want to be respected."
"You can only feel peace if you're willing to feel all of the emotions."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the summer series, and I need to ask you a question. When was the last time you were |
| 0:06.4 | triggered? If you're like a lot of the world, probably recently, but in this episode, I am going to |
| 0:13.4 | really challenge you to set the intention to become untriggerable at least most of the time, because your peace is important and you need to |
| 0:24.6 | learn to protect it. So let's dive in. Welcome to the School of Self-image, where personal |
| 0:30.5 | development meets style. Here's your hostess, Master Life Coach, Tanya Lee. Hello, my friends. |
| 0:37.7 | Welcome back to the summer series where we are revisiting some episodes from the past. |
| 0:42.9 | And today's episode is a result of me getting extremely triggered last week. |
| 0:49.7 | I am someone who today rarely gets triggered. |
| 0:53.6 | It takes a lot to trigger me because I value my peace more than anything else. |
| 0:59.3 | But last week, during my father's celebration of life, actually, I found myself on the pew |
| 1:05.4 | of the church in a full feeling of rage inside of me. So let me tell you what happened. We had already discussed |
| 1:16.1 | as a family my dad's celebration of life. We didn't want to call it a funeral. We wanted to |
| 1:22.5 | celebrate the man he was. We wanted to celebrate his history, the funny stories, just all of the ways that |
| 1:31.2 | he blessed his family and his community. And you have to understand, I grew up in a Pentecostal |
| 1:37.1 | holiness church. So funerals typically are full of a lot of preaching, a lot of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:44.5 | Like, it can get wild. |
| 1:46.9 | And I just told my mom, I'm like, you know what, mom, dad's lived his life in such a way |
| 1:51.8 | that we don't need to do all that. |
| 1:53.7 | Like, I want this to be about dad. |
| 1:56.6 | And so she agreed, and she had asked the ministers who were speaking to really keep it about |
| 2:05.6 | dad and his life and his legacy. |
| 2:09.3 | Well, let's just say one of the ministers got up to speak, and quite early on, I thought, oh, no, this is about to go off the rails. |
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