I know it can be really difficult to navigate all the events happening in the world today. 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. And things aren’t any better on the political front either.
When difficult things happen out there in the world, they spill over into our relationships with our children. We suddenly find ourselves snapping at them far more easily than usual. 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’t like.
In 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.
We look at the tools you can use to regulate your emotions when this happens…but also that regulating your emotions and then voting to express your feelings about how the world should be isn’t going to make a meaningful difference. 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.
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00:08 Societal factors that make us feel triggered
03:15 The Yerkes-Dodson law describes the empirical relationship between stress and performance
04:53 Broadhurst’s research has made it possible to see stress as a positive thing
07:12 A moderate amount of stress, time pressure and role conflict can all enhance your creativity
09:09 How feeling triggered is connected to our trauma in the past
11:50 Techniques to cope with stress when triggered by a trauma
12:50 What will you get out of the Taming Your Triggers workshop
13:25 Our brains spend a good deal of the time telling stories about what's happening to us
16:09 Why do we...
