Does Thanksgiving with Family Trigger You? Use the Triggers to Heal.
We can be calm and collected and speak our mind from a place of neutrality, or we can fly off the handle and cause irreparable harm to the relationship. It's up to us. The moral of the story is that triggers are not a bad thing. They are important messages that we can use to heal ourselves and even our relationships through awareness and compassion for ourselves and others. Remember, we all have triggers. Most of them developed when we were very young
Hey, I love the setup for this and just the way you kind of expressed the tips and tricks on how to navigate the triggers and not just avoid them or not even avoid the family because of them. I think that's all very, very beautiful and very useful perspectives to throw in there as we approach these holiday seasons. I am unfortunately not close to my family, so of course the grass is always greener, right?
Because when we allow those triggers to damage those relationships, it's just tragic. It's happened. I've watched my sister and my brother, and they haven't spoken in, gosh, probably six years now. My sister doesn't have a relationship with my niece and nephew, and it was just a trigger. I could see it happening between my sister and my brother and my sister in law, and it's very tragic