The lights, sounds, and scents of the holidays can all be
intense emotional triggers.
As a birth doula, I hold the hands of women who face sudden, unexpected and
intense emotional triggers during labor relating to prior abortions, miscarriages and / or stillbirths.
Not exact matches
«As the initial shock and
emotional numbness slowly subsides, I'm experiencing more flashbacks of memories from our 6.5 years of happiness, and for now these memories tend to
trigger pain and
intense longing.»
This is a phenomenon called single event learning — meaning that it only takes one experience to result in an
intense, permanent
emotional reaction to the
trigger that caused it.
This
emotional response can be so
intense that all future contact with the owner can
trigger a similar state of mind.
Michele has training in OEI (Observed Experiential Integration), which is a method that integrates traumatic memories into our regular memory, so they no longer
trigger intense emotional responses.