17/10/2025
When you are emotionally triggered by something or someone, please STOP 🚨, put the phone down, and walk away from the situation until you are calm.
Develop the awareness to recognise when you are triggered...
Usually, the biggest indicator is when you have a massive emotional reaction to something, move away from the situation.
It is our responsibility to heal our triggers when they come up...to ask ourselves...
Why am I having such a big emotional response to this?
Where did this response come from?
When did I first feel this, or where is this truly coming from?
It is not on others...radical responsibility is knowing that we allowed ourselves to let someone's words, actions, etc, affect us in some way.
In this current environment and in entrepreneurship, you will be triggered... especially on social media and around social issues, but...
We do not have the right to verbal diahorrea that response all over someone else.
Our truth and values may not be someone else's, and we all have a right to them.
We don't know what our outbursts, actions, and words that come from that triggered state could have on someone else.
What the result will be if they were already silently struggling...
If our unloading triggered a trauma response in them, that may take days, weeks, or months for them to come back from.
We do not have the right to release our triggered states onto someone else and need to know that it has an effect on the other person.
I am thankful that I am getting better at sitting in silence when triggered rather than unloading it onto someone else.
This is something that I have been working on for a while and have to use it numerous in the past week.
It is the one skill I wish I had learned earlier.