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Podcast: From Sobriety To Recovery: An Addiction Recovery Podcast
Episode: Are You Emotionally Reactive or Grounded and Responding?
Description: Ep #261 - Triggered, activated, tripped - whatever you call it, you have emotional anchors set all around you. They can be in your external world where other people do things around you, to you, or with you. Additionally, there are infinite anchors in your mind just waiting for that turn down an old worn-down path, and then the anchor triggers/activates and trips the old behavioral pattern loop - and it is REACTION TIME!
It is crucial to create space between the stimuli and your next action. That time is when you can ground into the moment...