168: Feeling Triggered by Current Events
I know it can be really difficult to navigate all the events happening in the world today.\xa0 It seems like things are falling apart, with wars, climate change-caused drought and wildfires in some areas and flooding in others, with hunger not following far behind.\xa0 And things aren\u2019t any better on the political front either.\n\n \n\nWhen difficult things happen out there in the world, they spill over into our relationships with our children.\xa0 We suddenly find ourselves snapping at them far more easily than usual.\xa0 The things they do that are normally mildly irritating now push us to the limit, and we end up reacting to them in ways that we don\u2019t like.\xa0\xa0\n\n \n\nIn this episode we discuss the reasons why you feel emotionally yanked around by things that are happening out there in the wider world, as well as by the ways these things are discussed online and in our families as well.\xa0\xa0\n\n \n\nWe look at the tools you can use to regulate your emotions when this happens\u2026but also that regulating your emotions and then voting to express your feelings about how the world should be isn\u2019t going to make a meaningful difference.\xa0 We learn tools you can use instead to create a sense of autonomy, which reduces stress and also change the circumstances themselves so they are less triggering in the future.\n\n \n\nIf you know you need support with your triggered feelings, whether these are related to:\n\n \n
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- Events that are going in in the wider world \n \t
- Seeing discussion of those events online or hearing about them from family members or friends \n \t
- Traumatic events that you experienced in your childhood \n \t
- Events in your childhood that you don\u2019t think of as traumatic, and yet left marks on you \n \t
- Difficulties you\u2019re having now \n
\n \n\n\u2026the Taming Your Triggers workshop will help.\xa0 In the workshop you\u2019ll learn what are the real causes of your triggered feelings (which really aren\u2019t about your child\u2019s behavior), and you\u2019ll get support in taking on these ideas deeply so they aren\u2019t just things you have to remember, but that you actually believe and live.\n\n \n\nThe difficult things that happened to us happened in relationships with other people, and so we heal most effectively through relationships with other people as well.\xa0 We\u2019ll support you in an amazing community of parents who are all on this journey alongside you, and you\u2019ll also get the opportunity to pair up with one of them so you can hold each other (gently!) accountable to keep going through the workshop even when things get hard, and to deepen your learning as you go. \xa0\xa0\n\n \n\nJoin the waitlist to be notified when doors reopen.\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\nEpisodes mentioned in this episode\n\nNo Self, No Problem\n\nMutual Aid\n\n \n\n \n\n<div class="ql-block"...