SPFPP 272: What to do When You're Re-triggered

Thank you to The Love in Action Fund for their contribution to SPFPP. I take some of my own experiences of recent disappointments, relationship transitions, and my responses to them. I speak about first identifying the emotion of your triggered situation and then identifying the most recent time you felt that emotion, as well as the FIRST time you experienced that emotion. When you connect those three dots, you get a pattern. Patterns are locked in and while people swear by "breaking" them, I think it's a lot easier to redirect them and make use of them. In my case, I speak to how my mommy issue and daddy issue still show up for me and how I just have to redirect the retriggered energy I get from when I'm activated. My pattern has been to get so good at meeting my mom's needs that I convinced myself that meeting her need consistently was the equivalent of meeting my own needs. This is one to listen to with a notebook to journal.