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Triggered and True

If you feel emotionally overwhelmed, stuck in cycles of shame, blame, and judgment, or just exhausted from trying to fix yourself, this is a place to breathe.

Triggered & True® is a podcast about emotional healing, grief, and self-compassion with Laura Duncan, creator of the Compassion Method™, and co-host Brian Freise. Each episode Laura and Brian get honest about shame, anger, anxiety, and the triggers that run our lives — and walk through healing that begins with compassion instead of self-improvement.

For over 14 years, Laura has helped people through trauma, loss, and grief. The grief that doesn’t follow a timeline and comes in waves. Brian is living proof it works: after years of debilitating panic attacks, he found actual relief through the Compassion Method.

The method is three words: Awareness, Comfort, Discovery. Or put simply: Feel your pain. Get comfort. Go play. Because healing isn’t becoming someone new — it’s returning to who you’ve always been. New episodes monthly on the third Saturday.

Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868

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Latest Episodes:

(Ep. 3) What You Don't Know About a "Trigger"? Jun 04, 2021

Show notes

What if you could stay at peace — even when everything around you says you shouldn't?

In this episode of Triggered & True, emotional health consultant Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise slow down on the word at the heart of the entire show: triggered.

It's become a throwaway word online, but Laura gives it a definition that changes everything — "an irrational response to a rational or irrational situation" — and shows why understanding it can feel like a superpower.

Laura compares a trigger to an allergic reaction: the racing heart, the tight chest, the foggy brain, the thoughts you don't normally think — and the relief that comes the moment you realize nothing is wrong with you.

Together, she and Brian unpack what's happening in the brain when the amygdala hijacks your "adult" mind and drops you into a five-year-old's, why that leaves you stuck exactly when you most want to stay calm, and why the anxiety so many of us live with is really the pain underneath the trigger.

In this episode:

🔹 Laura's definition of a trigger — and why it means you can be okay even when your circumstances aren't

🔹 The "emotional allergic reaction": how to recognize a trigger by what it does to your body and mind

🔹 What's really happening in the brain — fight, flight, or freeze — when the amygdala takes over

🔹 Why the calm, capable things you learned vanish the instant you get triggered — and why that isn't failure

🔹 Why triggers aren't the enemy: how they're part of your design, and a doorway to your true self

📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868

🔗 Learn more:

https://triggeredandtrue.com

https://lauraduncan.com

Get your copy of Above All Else: Winning the War for Your Heart by clicking here.

(Ep. 1) Triggered and True Feb 11, 2021

Show notes

What if you were never broken to begin with?

This is where it starts. In the very first episode of Triggered & True, emotional health consultant Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise introduce the Compassion Method™ — a process for understanding your emotional triggers, healing shame, and reconnecting with your true self. If you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or exhausted from trying to fix yourself, this episode is the beginning of your journey to finding true rest.

Laura shares how the method was born — from her own story of grief and loss, to friends gathered in her living room, to grown men "snot crying" in coffee shops as the walls came down. Brian, a client of two years turned co-host, explains why he came in feeling broken and left feeling empowered. Together they unpack what the show's name really means: you have to walk through your triggered self to reach your true self.

In this episode:

🔹 Why "you don't need to be fixed" is the first thing Laura tells everyone who sits across from her

🔹 What the Compassion Method is — and why Laura is a life consultant, not a therapist or life coach

🔹 How shame wires the brain for fight-or-flight — and why willpower can't reach the pain underneath

🔹 Where faith fits in — and why the method works just as powerfully for those who don't share it

🔹 The goal beneath it all: healing that isn't becoming someone new, but returning to who you've always been

New here? This is the perfect place to begin the journey!

📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868

🔗 Learn more:

https://triggeredandtrue.com

https://lauraduncan.com

Get your copy of Above All Else: Winning the War for Your Heart by clicking here.

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