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229. How to think about feeling triggered and unsafe

I Am Your Korean Mom

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Nervous System Fucking Triggers Are Not a Problem

I reserve managing my emotions for people that I love and care about because God knows sometimes you need to do that with family, right? We can sometimes have a similar nervous system reaction to seeing a live bear versus seeing a Twitter reply. The two are not the same in terms of actual level of threat to your bodily integrity. Our nervous systems like to be over alert so that it can err on the side of keeping you alive.

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