Ep 117: Triggers are our Treasures
Move With Heart
Melissa Wood-Tepperberg
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, Melissa dives deep into the idea that our triggers - the moments that make us feel jealous, envious, or reactive - can actually be our greatest teachers. She opens up about her own experiences navigating uncomfortable emotions and how creating safe spaces to explore what’s really going on beneath the surface can lead to powerful transformation. Melissa shares how she works through judgment, reactivity, and misalignment by slowing down, sitting with discomfort, and using it as a compass for growth. This episode is an invitation to reconnect with what makes you feel most alive, to tune in to the guidance within, and to begin moving through life from a place of clarity, intention, and deep self-trust - so the version of you you're becoming is led by alignment, not reaction.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Move with Heart podcast. I am your host, Melissa Wood-Teperberg, and I am so |
| 0:09.7 | honored to have you here to have these enlightening conversations to help you see the power |
| 0:18.7 | within yourself, this magnificence that we all hold. |
| 0:24.3 | We just have to stay devoted with our practice |
| 0:26.8 | and doing the work and open our hearts and our minds |
| 0:30.8 | to the infinite power of possibilities. |
| 0:37.7 | There is this interesting thing about having a spiritual practice and feeling like a spiritual |
| 0:45.2 | person. |
| 0:46.5 | When I get triggered by something, I'm like, but hold on, I shouldn't be triggered. |
| 0:53.0 | And I have had to really reshape my relationship to triggers |
| 0:57.8 | because I truly believe when you can look under the hood of what is really going on, triggers are |
| 1:07.7 | our treasures. It's this interesting thing because no one wants to feel disrupted. And |
| 1:14.0 | when something upsets me or I feel challenged by it, you feel this dis-ease in your body. And now when |
| 1:22.2 | I feel that, when something really brings this emotion up to the surface where maybe I'm feeling |
| 1:28.9 | envious, a little jealous by something. I think it's really, really important. Like first and |
| 1:37.2 | foremost, be freaking human, be pissed, be annoyed, be a little jealous, be a little like |
| 1:44.1 | ugly in the process. I can really be ugly |
| 1:50.0 | when I'm processing something and having those safe spaces and those safe people to really |
| 1:57.2 | dive into the depths of what's really going on because that's the thing about triggers. |
| 2:02.5 | You think maybe this situation or this person, by the way, there's something about it and it |
| 2:09.4 | annoys you and it irritates you. You think it's the thing that is bothering you in the first place. And let me just give an example. |
| 2:20.9 | Let's just say there's someone that you follow, that you choose to follow, by the way, and they trigger you. |
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