Healing From Emotional Triggers

You know how you know when your starting to heal?

Three hours afterwards, you realize you weren't triggered by what should have triggered you.

And that, my friends, is progress.

A trigger is basically any internal or external reminder of the original trauma.  Sometimes we are aware that we have been exposed to a trigger and sometimes we are not. 

But our body remembers, either way. That's why we get emotionally flooded- we experience more emotion than we can process or manage at once.  And it feels awful; like a panic attack or a heart attack or a complete mental breakdown. 

But... healing.

Slowly, deliberately, we begin to heal. And our triggers don't own us anymore.
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Keep on healing, friends, - M 
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