Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.

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Has anyone ever told you to just be positive or to think positive thoughts while you're

experiencing a crisis or having intense feelings or anxiety or even just having a down, difficult,

or emotional day. If so, did hearing those words, just be positive. Make you want to rip that

person's head off? Yep, me too. In this episode of Triggered, we're talking about those instances where someone,

typically a very well-meaning, well-intentioned person, tells you to be positive, and

you get triggered because you're having genuine feelings about something or experiencing a difficult time,

and sometimes that advice is just not appropriate or helpful in any way.

In these cases, when you get triggered, it might feel like anger or heat rising up through your

chest. That's typically how this type of triggering presents itself in my experience at least.

It could also make you feel even more emotional and worse than you're already feeling.

For me, this type of indignant anger, this feeling of not being heard, not being understood,

tends to result in tears of rage.

I will get emotional, and then that rises up through my chest and comes out as hot tears of anger if I feel misunderstood or not seen or not really heard.

I also want to touch on briefly in this episode on the endemic experience that some of us have had in

the spiritual community or working with healers or teachers, this experience of being told that

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