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112 - Our Hidden Triggers
Annaliese and Alan talk about how your hidden triggers quietly shape your emotional reactions, relationships, and everyday life. So often, reactive stories start playing in your mind (thoughts) and body (feelings) before you even realize it. When you learn to notice that inner narrative in the moment, you gain powerful self-awareness, giving you the ability to decide whether that story gets to lead you or whether you want to choose a different response.
You’ll Hear About:
Why building self-awareness around the stories in your head is essential for personal growth, emotional maturity, and mindset change. When you understand why you’re showing up the way you are, you can actually measure growth and make intentional shifts.
How to recognize the subtle cues of your hidden triggers. Are you assuming someone’s tone means something negative? Jumping to conclusions about their intentions? Feeling irritation rise quickly? These trigger stories color your perception and are shaping your experience in real time.
Why triggers often feel like they come “out of nowhere.” Your brain is wired to make quick meaning and try to protect you. But without awareness, you can end up replaying the same negative patterns in your relationships, communication habits, and the ways you experience daily stress.
Your Free Coaching Call:
Ready to go deeper in your own self-development journey? Schedule your FREE 1-hour Discovery Chat with Annaliese at www.linktree.com/coachannaliese. Share your situation and receive helpful coaching tools to create some real, lasting change.
Related Podcast Episode:
Listen to learn more about changing the story in your head:
https://wakeyourdream.podbean.com/e/18-you-can-change-the-story-in-your-head/
FINDING YOUR HIDDEN TRIGGERS
Facing and reflecting on your inner experience regularly helps you uncover the hidden trigger stories driving your reactions — so you don’t have to keep repeating reactive habits on autopilot.
Practice: Sitting With Yourself
Get alone with your thoughts and feelings long enough to name them. Try to resist the urge to distract, avoid, or immediately fix what you find. The true goal is to gently uncover the reality of your experience so you can understand why certain situations or people stir irritation, defensiveness, or reactivity in you.
Simply notice and list what’s present as you sit and reflect on your experience — thoughts, feelings, assumptions, reactions, expectations. Don’t analyze or change anything yet. This step is awareness only.
Notice your internal stance toward yourself. If you sense critical, defensive, or tense energy, gently shift toward a little more curiosity and openness to listening and hearing. Your goal here is familiarity and understanding, not self-correction.
Choose one thing from your Log (step 1) and ask, “What’s one reason this showed up in me?” Approach yourself with wisdom and love here - kindness toward yourself helps you see your options and create change where you want it. From this place of awareness, you’ll begin to see what small, intentional shifts are possible to try out.
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By Annaliese SeabornAnnaliese and Alan talk about how your hidden triggers quietly shape your emotional reactions, relationships, and everyday life. So often, reactive stories start playing in your mind (thoughts) and body (feelings) before you even realize it. When you learn to notice that inner narrative in the moment, you gain powerful self-awareness, giving you the ability to decide whether that story gets to lead you or whether you want to choose a different response.
You’ll Hear About:
Why building self-awareness around the stories in your head is essential for personal growth, emotional maturity, and mindset change. When you understand why you’re showing up the way you are, you can actually measure growth and make intentional shifts.
How to recognize the subtle cues of your hidden triggers. Are you assuming someone’s tone means something negative? Jumping to conclusions about their intentions? Feeling irritation rise quickly? These trigger stories color your perception and are shaping your experience in real time.
Why triggers often feel like they come “out of nowhere.” Your brain is wired to make quick meaning and try to protect you. But without awareness, you can end up replaying the same negative patterns in your relationships, communication habits, and the ways you experience daily stress.
Your Free Coaching Call:
Ready to go deeper in your own self-development journey? Schedule your FREE 1-hour Discovery Chat with Annaliese at www.linktree.com/coachannaliese. Share your situation and receive helpful coaching tools to create some real, lasting change.
Related Podcast Episode:
Listen to learn more about changing the story in your head:
https://wakeyourdream.podbean.com/e/18-you-can-change-the-story-in-your-head/
FINDING YOUR HIDDEN TRIGGERS
Facing and reflecting on your inner experience regularly helps you uncover the hidden trigger stories driving your reactions — so you don’t have to keep repeating reactive habits on autopilot.
Practice: Sitting With Yourself
Get alone with your thoughts and feelings long enough to name them. Try to resist the urge to distract, avoid, or immediately fix what you find. The true goal is to gently uncover the reality of your experience so you can understand why certain situations or people stir irritation, defensiveness, or reactivity in you.
Simply notice and list what’s present as you sit and reflect on your experience — thoughts, feelings, assumptions, reactions, expectations. Don’t analyze or change anything yet. This step is awareness only.
Notice your internal stance toward yourself. If you sense critical, defensive, or tense energy, gently shift toward a little more curiosity and openness to listening and hearing. Your goal here is familiarity and understanding, not self-correction.
Choose one thing from your Log (step 1) and ask, “What’s one reason this showed up in me?” Approach yourself with wisdom and love here - kindness toward yourself helps you see your options and create change where you want it. From this place of awareness, you’ll begin to see what small, intentional shifts are possible to try out.