Defusing Triggers

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Our tendency to fight, flee, freeze, or fawn when we feel when we’re triggered is often a response to something from our past. The work is not to eliminate all triggers, but to understand why you’re feeling triggered, how to defuse them when they come, and when to take a moment to slow down to care for our body, mind, and soul in response to those triggers.

Listen to Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen discuss some of their triggers and some of their strategies for defusing those triggers in this week’s episode of the Allender Center Podcast.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:29.9	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. There are some topics that feel a little important to address, but are still a little bit distant. This happens to be one
0:40.0	that is not so much dearer to my heart, but near to my heart. We're going to talk about
0:50.4	being triggered, and I just got an email that apparently you opened. We won't go into
0:56.6	the details, but a departure of really a good, wonderful human being from the midst of our
1:05.6	work. And it just, in the opening of that email, and seeing the event of being able to celebrate and send this good man,
1:17.0	like, I just wanted to pound my little screen.
1:23.1	I'm not particularly mature.
1:25.3	No one's ever accused me of that.
1:27.1	But, you know, being triggered
1:29.8	when you open an email, I didn't expect to be triggered when I opened an email. And there it is.
1:39.3	So, Rachel, I would like this hour or whatever to be addressing what we need to deal well with the unexpected moments when we have a flash flood, a rush.
1:58.4	Yeah, that's a great way to put it.
2:00.8	A cortisol. I remember when we a great way to put it. A corsole.
2:02.6	I remember when we were, I was in Israel, we were walking down what's called a wadi, and it's just this like stream bed.
2:11.6	And our host said, probably best not to be in there, because even though it looks dry, there could be rain 10 miles away.
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