What if the person you were created to be isn't lost — just underdeveloped, waiting for you to use them again?
In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise pick up right where the last episode left off. Once you've learned that your triggered reactions aren't who you really are, a natural question follows: then who am I?
This is the answer — a practical, hopeful conversation about discovering, developing, and finally living from your true self, which Laura calls the ultimate goal of the whole Compassion Method.
Laura and Brian offer insights on how "joy triggers" reveal your true characteristics, and how pain triggers reveal your wounds (when did you last feel truly alive, hopeful, carefree?), and why your true self isn't a finished person to uncover but a part of you to grow.
Laura's "one strong arm" image lands it: the parts of yourself you've exercised your whole life are strong, while the carefree, joyful, adventurous parts have gone weak from neglect, not absence.
Brian gets personal too, revisiting his very first one-on-one notes with Laura to trace his own path from discovering his true self to actually embracing and loving it. It's the episode that brings the method full circle.
In this episode:
🔹 After the triggered self, the real question: then who am I?
🔹 Joy triggers: how the moments you feel most alive reveal who you actually are
🔹 Why your true self isn't just uncovered but developed — the "one strong arm" metaphor
🔹 Why the triggered self stays stuck while the true self can keep growing
🔹 Brian's own journey, from his first session notes to embracing and loving his true self
Dive deeper with these two great resources! 👇
📕 Get your copy of Brian's book Above All Else: Winning the War for Your Heart Click here to get the book!
📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868
