Reacting versus responding

What is emotionally being triggered and reacting versus emotional control and responding?

This is something that over the past . . . well, I guess I should just say life because really, it’s a life lesson isn’t it? We all have to learn this, we all have to learn how to have adult conversations. That starts with emoting versus being emotionally controlled. Aggression and attacking versus communicating and expressing. Misunderstanding versus understanding.

I struggled with this a lot growing up because I didn’t have th...

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