Jennifer Koster

Baggage is a trickster - always hiding in the background waiting for a trigger to bring you back into old patterns and habits. It doesn't take much, but it can launch reactions or take you down an emotional spiral where you may not even recognize yourself. The key to navigating this is self-awareness. Getting real with why you are triggered, where the reaction is coming from and how you really feel. We are rarely triggered by the incident itself, but rather the meaning we have placed on it or its relevance to something that has happened in our past. And that can run DEEEEEEP. So have a little patience with yourself, and take responsibility for what you do and say.

I have spoken to many people who have done deep work on themselves and been triggered by something that brought them right back where they started. It is normal, we are human and we are flawed. And that is ok.

We are all works in progress, and life is never short of lessons we need to learn. Understand your baggage, understand yourself.