Life’s Triggers – Trauma, Parenting, Pulling The Trigger, Triggered For a Good Shoot Out, Triggered By Betrayal

Triggers – Life’s Lessons and Break Throughs: In today’s world, it’s been fascinating to see how people perceive being triggered. Sharing my perspective, what I have come to learn is how important triggers are. It’s how they show up, how our emotions can test us and take us over, and how we can suppress our emotions inside, that can be our great teachers, how the energy in motion can guide us, how our triggers can fire us through life’s battles and wins. in a world where you’ve got to have some fight, ‘keep quiet, hold it in, don’t express your emotions, don’t say what you feel, just bury it and say no more, the great challenge of containing your emotions and keeping your thoughts to yourself. In a time were many of us are losing the fight and drive to get through life, asleep at the wheel, unaware before you know it, your tires are flat and your going nowhere!. it’s important to recognize the value that triggers can bring in to our life and through experiences. In reaction versus response, finding the heart and the willingness to face the uncomfortable truth, to embrace the charge, feel it through, learn and grow. Triggers, life’s lessons and break throughs that come along for the journey.

A World Weaken and Polarized – Mental Health & Addictions at An All Time High: A self-published author of ‘Activating Flow, Releasing The Power Within’, his second book The Great Awakening, Breaking Through The Matrix Of The Mind, experiencing family difficulties, Carl grew up in a children’s home aged 6 to 15, leaving school with no qualifications or direction, lost on the streets, he would going through a mental breakdown, an emotional break through and awakening, connecting to the universal flow in 1985/86. Becoming a sportsman, playing semi-professional soccer-football, boxing amateur and professional boxer, a coach and mentor for over 35 years. Retiring from boxing in 1997 to find his calling,working in a school for alternative learning, supporting youth with emotional and challenging behavior, working within schools, youth projects, young offenders. With professional athletes from premiership fooball- soccer, Great Britain rugby league, working with boxing world champions. Studying stress, human biology and behavior for over 28 years, creating my concept human technology and founder of The EnergyWize University Of Life. Becoming a dad, coming to live and work in Edmonton, Canada since 2014, it’s been a fascinating journey and I have come to love the beautiful Alberta. Jumping through hoops, stuck in an immigration system, life’s been challenging and I’ve seen so much change over the last 11 years, government, politics and the impact of the 2020 global pandemic. A world weakened and polarized by the stress, trauma and fear event after fear event, confusion and division, taken over, many of us emotionally worn out, anxious, wound up, with mental health and addictions at an all-time high across the world, with over a 150 million looking for online solutions across the globe every month.

Trauma Triggers: A place I know well, deeply impacted by life’s circumstances and events. The wounded child stuck in the past, the stories that can hold back our journey of true potential. The soldier lost at war, a veteran on an invisible battle field, experiencing PTSD, intrusive images and memories from the past. Trauma triggers in the moment that can take over, reminding us to do our inner work, processing and detaching old files on our internal hard drive and operating system.

Human Biology – Our Reactive Caveman Software: Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fawn, Fake and Flake: Working in alternative learning since 1997, fascinated and experiencing brain gym, learning about our left and right brain hemisphere’s and how the right brain switches off, I would implement it in to my boxing concept, BoxWize, teaching young people how to switch on and tune in, activating whole brain function, emotional awareness and heart-mind intelligence. In this technology information age of excessive stimulation and over thinkers of social media and alternative platforms, free thinkers and amazing content providers, in a world of miss, dis information, tech bots, the ability to discern information, chat rooms and social media sensitivity and conflict. Many of us unaware of our human biology, overwhelmed by fear and stress, we can get stuck in our heads, in the left brain, running our reactive caveman software, Freeze, Flight, Fight and Fawn on our internal hard drive and operating system. Fascinated by the human experience, seeing stress and fear taking over, i’ve come to add Fake and Flake to reactive behaviours. The Fake, those who have a front, a pretense, an ego driven mentality that hides behind a mask, retreats in the battle, somebody caught in the act, full of talk but no action. The Flake is somebody portraying to be in control, strong but inconstant with following through, getting the job done, the king of excuses, struggling with the emotions, somebody who can’t handle the heat, a chocolate fire guard that melts under pressure.

Left & Right Brain Hemispheres: The truth is, when it comes to our left and right brain hemispheres, many of us left brainers, more left brain dominant, a vulnerable right brain experiencing years of reactive media programming and social conditioning. Taught what to think and how to feel, the self-absorbed ego, a sensitive bully in a position of power. In a world of cognitive dissonance, where our reactive amygdala caveman software blocks the pathway to critical thinking, running a program on our internal hard drive and operating system.

Parenting Triggers – Gun Fire Ready!: There’s no doubt that being a parent in this technology information age of reactive programming and social conditioning can bring the many stressors and triggers that can load the bullets, arming but at the same time teaches us how to implement discipline, gun fire ready learning when to pull the trigger, exercising tough love, guiding our children through the world of influence, distractions, temptations and chaos.

Pulling The Trigger: Sports, Coaching and Mentorship:  Playing semi-professional football-soccer back in my home city of Hull UK, it was working class lads, tough characters, competitive games played at high intensity. Becoming a coach, you would get your soldiers ready for battle, reputations on line, it was physical, challenging, demanding, the phycological head games, as a coach you learn to pull the trigger. In the moment, live and direct, fire thing up, call it out and drive your point home quick. In the team talk, make decisions that are uncomfortable, different personalities, some players need a hug, some need a knuckle sandwich and words of encouragement. Some need calling out, that look in the eye, a truth bomb and a straight forward kick in the ass and a rocket up the jacksy!. On the field of play were character is built, were big games and championships are won. Fascinating in boxing, getting in the ring of fire it’s go time, your loaded up for the fight, ready for the battle. Ding Ding the bell goes, in the moment, your in control, managing your ammunition, it’s time to pull the trigger, be first to the punch, staying fired up, your winning the war.

Triggered For a Good Shoot Out – Calling It Out: Along with the many challenges and stress life can bring, some days there can be a little friction in the kitchen and somethings brewing!, the wrong choice words, a slip of the tongue, people hiding behind their actions, ignorant to their behaviours, with a sense of build up inside, the bullets loaded over time.Somebody stepping over the line, in the firing line, triggered in the moment, your triggered for a good shoot out, time to call a situation out. Unfair comments, harsh words, your caught in the cross fire, hitting a nerve the truth can hurt, the emotional damage and repair. Better out than in, it’s time to call things out, take ownership in the discomfort, say your piece, have a steam off, work it all out, get to the truth, agree to disagree, respect, compassion, forgiveness, from reaction to response, exercising the art of letting go.

Triggered By Betrayal – Loading The Bullets With No Shame: Triggered by betrayal is a new one for me, an experience I shared through the process, finding that betrayal is common in today’s world. In 2025, going on an emotional roller coaster ride of deceit, I would experience arrogance and ignorance all wrapped up in denial. In a day when your word was your honor, an handshake, and that look of trust in the eyes sealed the deal, now in a time of dirty tricks and dishonesty. None of us are perfect but looking at betrayal its fascinating to see how people come to behave. The street struggle mentality, survival mode, desperation, subconscious action, taken over by old patterns, money and trust taken over by greed, temptation and opportunity too good to deny. The corporate world of competition, dog eat dog, patterns of behavior developed over time, programmed to think, products of competitive environment. Where egos grow, a self-absorbed arrogance that can lack values, truth and integrity. From the top down, where fakes and flakes get to dominate, exercise a power of influence and call the shots. In a world that lacks true communication, trust and transparency, suspicious moves, ignorant to their behaviors, betrayers get lost along the way. Hiding behind their actions, justifying lies, with a lack of depth they dig a deeper hole of deception, avoidance and unwilling to accept responsibility. Betrayers load the bullets, preparing the triggers, hiding in plain sight, they look you in the eyes with no shame. Going through a civil claim, in the game of lawyers and lies, where money can talk and liars walk.

Going On The Deep Dive Through Deception: Activating your human technology, switching on and tuning in your intuition, the intellect of the left brain integrated with the intuition of the right brain. The 3 brains, your head, heart and gut instinct, all synergistically working together. Your heart electromagnetic, interconnect to the electromagnetic universe, like transmitters and receivers, using your bright response software, emotional awareness and heart-mind intelligence, your heart guiding you through the process. Back to earth!, downloading, grounding and integrating, feeling through and internalizing life experience. Thoughts and feelings like waves, your surfing an ocean of emotions, energy in motion, exercising your ability to respond – responsibility, learning to let go and move on, moving through reaction back to response, from the head back to the heart.

Experiencing betrayal in 2025, I was triggered and inspired to create this article.

Carl Heath