Focusing Tip #880 – Emotional triggers – “I get triggered by this person over and over again”
Do your feelings calm down but then you’re thrown back into the same stressful situation? Read on… A Reader writes: A person…
Focusing Tip #814 – “Do I speak up or say nothing?”
How do you decide? Read on… Chantall writes: How do you handle the annoyance of an upstairs neighbor who walks too loud?…
Focusing Tip #627 – When your trauma gets triggered by current events
Are you suffering PTSD symptoms just from watching the news? Read on… Susanna writes: What’s going on this past week, with the…
Focusing Tip #601 – I find it frightening to try to sense the dissociating part in my body.
A Reader writes: I just realized that I dissociate. I can’t control it when it happens. It, whatever in me takes over…
Focusing Tip #577 -When early childhood trauma gets triggered
If you’re triggered by what people say, and you know it’s from your own past, what do you do? Sally writes: I’m…
Focusing Tip #543 – How soon after recognizing a trigger of sadness or depression would be the best time to do a healing process like Focusing?
“Is there a time after recognizing the trigger of your sadness … before seeking to restore and heal through active Focusing?” Anne…
Focusing Tip #538 – Do you get into a dead end with trying to bring change in old repetitive traumas?
“Around that original trauma there seems to have developed a kaleidoscope of reactive feelings…” A few months ago Leslie wrote: I seem…
Focusing Tip #486 – “I am good at my job, but I feel incompetent.”
“When I am around providers who specialize in this field, I feel dreadfully incompetent.” Stephanie writes: I am a doctoral student…
