Books Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing by David Richo (Author)

"Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing" by David Richo explores how emotional triggers are often rooted in unresolved past experiences, particularly childhood wounds and trauma. Triggers activate automatic emotional reactions like fear, anger, or sadness before the conscious mind can respond calmly. Richo highlights the importance of recognizing this process to pause and respond mindfully rather than react impulsively.

The book identifies common triggers such as feeling controlled, discounted, or having boundaries violated, and the way inner critic and unconscious patterns intensify these responses. Richo presents tools including naming and journaling triggers, practicing mindfulness to create space between stimulus and response, and using self-compassion and affirmations to build inner resources. He encourages understanding the role of the "shadow," ego, and early life conditioning in triggering reactions.