How To Feel Your Feelings: When You're Triggered

How To Feel Your Feelings is a monthly space where we learn how to feel and heal ❤️‍🩹.

Each session explores a different theme: a specific emotion, inner experience or technique. You’re welcome to attend one or many. Each one is a complete journey in itself.

This month, we are exploring triggers.

Being triggered can feel like getting hijacked.

One minute you’re fine and the next, something is deeply not OK. Anger, shame, panic, or a mix of everything floods the system.

It’s one of the most painful places to be. And also where we are often most disconnected from ourselves.

We often don’t know what to do. It can feel overwhelming, confusing, even shameful. And then we tend to focus outward: on fixing the situation.

But even if we fix the external cause, the same trigger tends to come back. Because the real hurt isn’t out there, it’s in here (*whispered softly as finger points gently at heart-space in cliche mindfulness fashion*).

And it’s through allowing our real emotional response that the charge begins to soften and triggers lose their grip over time.

In this workshop, you will learn how to work with triggers as they happen, and get practical tools for next time you’re activated.

Together, we will explore:

✅ What is happening within us when we get triggered

✅ Why we suppress the body and ‘fix’ with the mind

✅ How to meet the hurt inside, without getting overwhelmed

✅ Practical tools to safely explore difficult feelings

When you fully feel an emotion, it moves, softens and transforms.

• Anger becomes strength
• Fear becomes courage
• Shame becomes authenticity

This is how we access the wholeness, freedom, and aliveness we’re really longing for.

Not by bypassing the pain. But by learning how to meet it, feel it, and let it flow.

If you want to feel better, get better at feeling.

Your feelings live in your body. So I take a body-based approach that emphasises the direct experience of the body here and now.

My approach is trauma-informed, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of participants above all else.

This is a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space where the golden rule is a complete allowing of all the parts of you.

We will be exploring individual, pair and group exercises, along with lots of time for questions and sharing.

These are designed to help you:

✅ Connect safely to the body

✅ Understand what you’re feeling

✅ Let emotions process and release

✅ Notice unhelpful patterns

✅ Gently unwind resistance

Note: this is a group class, so we won’t be diving deeply into overly difficult emotions for the sake of everyone’s safety. We will be practicing foundational skills in safe ways that you can incorporate into your life.

All the exercises are optional, there is no obligation to participate or share.

My name is Ben, I’m a somatic therapist based in Brighton.

On my own journey recovering from alcoholism, I discovered the power of feeling as a direct path to healing. Now, I help others to do the same.

Everything I offer is rooted in my own personal experience of deeply feeling and healing.

Learn more: www.drunkenbuddha.net

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