Explore how trauma triggers can impact mental health, the importance of setting personal boundaries for self-empowerment, finding purpose to empower oneself, and strategies like widening focus and healthy comparisons to handle emotional triggers with resilience.
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Recognize different types of trauma triggers to cope effectively with their impact.
Empower oneself by enforcing limits, creating mental barriers, and regrouping for self-care after triggering events.
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Triggers and Trauma
Triggers, such as events in the news or media, can lead to negative emotional reactions and worsen mental health symptoms. These triggers are often connected to different types of trauma, including vicarious trauma witnessed by others, race-based trauma, and intergenerational trauma. Effects of trauma may include fear, depression, insomnia, and decreased self-esteem. It's crucial to acknowledge and understand triggers to effectively cope with their impact.
Empowerment Strategies
To empower oneself when facing triggering events, enforcing limits is vital. Understanding and respecting personal limits without guilt is key to taking a necessary break. Creating mental barriers internally and externally, and purposeful participation by giving back can help combat feelings of helplessness. Engaging in activities and regrouping or resetting after triggers are essential steps in self-care.
Expanding Focus and Coping
Expanding focus by healthy comparisons and engaging in activities that distract from trauma can help manage triggers. Regrouping involves checking in on personal arousal levels before re-engaging with triggering situations. Through acknowledging emotional responses and taking strategic breaks, individuals can navigate triggers with self-awareness and care.
There are so many things happening in the world that are potentially triggering for folks. On this episode of the Savvy Psychologist you will learn how to handle your emotional triggers through a useful acronym that will EMPOWER you to cope in a healthy way.