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The 4 Ways We Respond to Triggers and What They Mean
and How to Heal Them
A trigger is an event that provokes a strong emotional response in you. Events range from a mean comment to a lack of acknowledgment to an overstepped boundary to someone saying I love you. Rejection, betrayal, insecurity and criticism are extremely common things that elicit a triggered reaction.
It is possible for virtually any event to trigger someone, but the reason one gets triggered is dependent on one’s earlier experiences.
In addition to eliciting emotional responses, being triggered causes one thinking to get distorted, which then causes bodily changes and changes in behavior.
But what are these emotional responses and what can we do to deal with them?
1. Resentment
As I mentioned earlier, any event could cause one to get triggered but the events that trigger you will depend on the experiences you had earlier in your life. Some of these events may cause you to respond with resentment.
We all know what resentment is. It’s anger, bitterness and indignation. Something happened in one’s past that caused one to feel these emotions and because it was never addressed and healed, it continues to live on ready to erupt at a moment’s notice.
