What I post in my feed is knowledge and wisdom I have learned and earned in my personal journey though my lived experience. It may be relevant to you but it's not about you.
You know how I know?
Because I don't know you. You're a stranger on the Internet. Nothing is directed at you because I'm speaking into a vast space where many people can see it.
Few things in the world are about you. You only center yourself and you only see yourself in things that you want to see yourself in.
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If you can gain something positive from any of the things I've learned in my 50+ years that's great and I'm happy if anything I share about myself, my journey, my thoughts can be helpful to any journey you are on yourself. I believe strongly that sharing who we are and where we have traveled and how that has shaped us can help other people who are also traveling their own paths. It's how we know we're fundamentally the same, searching for the same light and fighting the same darkness.
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Triggers let you know when something is wrong or dysregulated in your system.
Triggers fire when something important has made itself known to your defenses and they react to protect you because you could be harmed in some way from something you have yet to properly resolve in yourself.
These are good things to know.
It is good to know when you have things that you need to work on.
It is good to know when you have yet to truly resolve something and grow stronger from that fight.
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It is good to be made aware that you have a weakness that needs to be examined and when you have more to go in your journey to be a whole and healthy person.
Pay attention to your triggers. Pay attention to how dysregulated and wild your emotions are. Pay attention to the moments when you think everything is about you especially when it's not.
Your whole soul is trying to tell you something is wrong. Your whole soul is trying to tell you to pay attention and do some self examination.
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Triggers are not your body telling you to lash out and get angry at some stranger on the Internet.
Triggers are your whole body's way of telling you to take a step back and look at yourself and feel your feelings and understand where they are truly coming from and how out of your control they are.
Triggers are your whole body's way of saying it cares enough about you to warn you when you need to work on yourself.
Listen to them. Pay less attention to strangers online and more to yourself.
If something I post makes you angry because you think it's about you, even though we don't know each other and I have no idea what you're going through, how you live, what you think and I probably don't care ... you should probably think about why random thoughts trigger you so much and why you feel the need to center yourself in things that aren't about you.
Triggers are nothing to be ashamed of. Triggers are GOOD THINGS. They are warning systems for your soul.
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