Your boss tells you to see him in his office and you get a sinking feeling in your stomach. In his office he tells you the good news that you’ve got the promotion and you feel instantly relieved and elated. You return to your desk to find a note left by the receptionist to return a call to your mother urgently. Worried and anxious, you call home and mum tells you that the dog has ruined the brand new sofa you just bought. It hits you that your worst fear has come true. You fly into a rage and yell at your mum for not controlling the dog. In the midst of your yelling you see all your colleagues looking at you, surprised. It’s like you suddenly snapped into consciousness. As you recover from the shock of what you just did, a wave of embarrassment and regret washes over you and you start thinking about how to justify your actions. Sound familiar?
On any given day, we have a reaction to almost anything. We hear the mention of a name, a place, a thing, and find ourselves seized up with anger, sadness, envy, guilt, fear, or shame. When this happens, we can be sure a trigger has been pulled – a stimulus-response experience that happens to all of us. Sometimes, we can move through our reaction in a moment. However, our reaction to a trigger is often excessive, and can escalate to become an obsession, reminding us of past events where we have been scapegoated, discounted, controlled, or put in a vulnerable position which we’ve tried to disassociate ourselves from. How can we heal from our trigger experiences and reduce instances of having our buttons pushed?
In this session, learn how to identify your triggers and how they affect you. Uncover what your reactions are about and where they come from. Learn how to handle your triggers when they arise, and how you can reclaim your power and have more choice about your immediate reactions to things that happen. Create effective and forwarding ways to resolve relationship issues which are bound to occur, and enjoy more fulfilling moments in your relationships and life.
What you will gain through this 2-hour session:
Become conscious of your relationship patterns
Understand why you react the way you do in relationships
Learn to respond in a forwarding manner to your relationship triggers
Improve your relationships with the people around you
This session is part of The Dwelling Challenge: Relationships series. Join us for the upcoming sessions as well to stack up your accomplishments and create amazing results for yourself!