Would you like to respond to life’s difficulties with insight, calmness, and purpose? It can be a struggle to stay emotionally grounded. Dr. Patti Johnson provides a lifeline, well-researched solutions to the difficult situations that challenge you daily. Learn why you react in specific ways to emotional triggers, and then use that understanding to empower you to live life more fully and effectively.
Most people experience repetitive emotional and behavior cycles. Does this sound familiar? Your painful experiences follow a predictable pattern-- something in your world causes you to be “set up to be upset” and triggers an automatic negative emotional reaction. You experience an emotional and physical response that falls into one or more of these three categories: 1) anger/frustration, 2) fear/anxiety, and 3) sadness/grief. These emotions occur almost every day: from minor to major annoyances at home or work, frustration in relationships, fear of taking risks toward desired goals, or disappointment and sadness in a variety of contexts. The emotion sets off an entire thought process and activates deeply held beliefs. Your mind begins to review, rehearse, and amplify your feelings. Once this happens you are off to the races with a full-blown and predictable emotional reaction.
Since the above describes a majority of people, it is certain that you have also seen this happen to people around you; friends, family, children, spouses, co-workers, etc. You are probably pretty good at predicting what will happen next once you or someone you know begin to get emotionally aroused.
Free yourself from habitually reacting to the same emotional triggers which lead to unnecessary drama in all of our lives. You can change these cycles and navigate through reactive emotional pain to a state of well being.