It happens always more or less in the same way, someone says something or does something - it can be a word, it can be an image, or a driver on the highway, a hurtful comment, or a memory from long ago that resurfaces - and here we go, we lose our cool, and more often than not a big emotional outpour that seems totally out of proportion with what triggered it – we become argumentative, or angry and aggressive, or we sink into an overwhelming feeling of unworthiness, or a paralyzing sense of doom, or a fit of anxious behaviors and thinking, or a dark mood that comes over us and darkens everything.

We call it being "triggered". And once this trigger is activated an emotional behavior follows without fail - or does it? Do we have to always jump when we see or hear the bait, the red flag.

Join Christiane and learn what your “amygdala” has to do with it and trust that you can become your own amygdala-whisperer through mindfulness of your own body sensations and reactions.