Triggers Don’t Have Power. Meaning Does.

Why what activates you isn’t the real issue, and never was.

A trigger is often treated as something external.
Something that happens to you.

But a trigger has no inherent power.

What gives it weight is the meaning you attach to it.

The same comment can feel neutral to one person and devastating to another.
The difference isn’t sensitivity.
It’s interpretation.

Behind every trigger sits an unexamined meaning:

The trigger isn’t the threat.
The story attached to it is.

And here’s the part most people miss:
when you actually face the meaning — instead of reacting to the stimulus — the trigger often collapses.

Not because you suppressed it.
Not because you “reframed positively.”
But because the illusion holding it together dissolved.

Every trigger creates a choice, even if you don’t notice it:

Are you approaching this moment to resolve
or to attack?

Most reactions aren’t about protection, they’re about defending an identity tied to a meaning that was never questioned.

Triggers don’t disappear when life gets calmer.
They dissolve when meaning is brought into consciousness.

That’s not emotional work.
That’s authority returning to its rightful place.

Trusting it will bring some light to someone’s shadow,

Amale 💫💙

Amale Bouzlafa