Welcome to let it be easy with Susie Moore.

I want to talk to you today about a word that's used a lot. We hear this word a lot on social

media, in the news, when it comes to mental and emotional health, and it's this. It's the term trigger. You know, what is a

trigger for somebody? What's triggering you? What triggers someone else? What's a trigger alert? It's become this really, you know, ubiquitous word that we see everywhere, because triggers can be everywhere based on our life, based on what we've endured until now, of course,

based on childhood experiences.

But there are a couple of things I want to say about this.

There is an old African proverb that goes like this. If there's no enemy

within, no enemy outside can do you any harm.

I come back to this a lot because I know those human beings we are meant to live in peace.

And so triggers are an invitation to know ourselves

more intimately. What's bothering me about that? Why did that thing that she say or

that thing that she did really rob me the wrong way.

Why do I have this negative charge in my body?

It's a wonderful thing to be curious about what it is that triggers you because something is on the inside.

I love what Gable Marte said around triggers.

He said, it's an interesting word because it's of course

associated with weaponry, but he said if something's triggering you on the

outside and it's almost always going to be another person.

The trigger may be that person or their action, but who is holding the ammunition?

Who is the person holding the ammunition?

Now maybe you're not triggered very often, maybe it's once or twice in a blue moon,

or maybe it's three or four times a day based on what you're

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