When we're triggered, all rational thinking goes out the window, and the battle between the head and the heart kicks in.

Unresolved trauma is stored as raw data in the amygdala, which is almost mature at birth.

The amygdala:

• Processes emotional value & stimulus

• Bypasses language & cognition

• Overrides the prefrontal cortex (rational thinking

• Overrides neo-cortex (logic)

• Shame defies logic & reason because it lives in the amygdala

We also know that the heart always wins when there's a battle between the head and the heart. It's what's in the heart that defiles us.

The judgments, expectations, inner vows and lies that we have come to believe in childhood take on a life of their own & when we're squeezed through stress & pressure, what's in the heart pours out of us.

Sometimes, we meet people who "push all our buttons" & trigger us into oblivion. These people create an opportunity for us to dig deeper to find out why those buttons exist so we can bring healing to the wounds & put our sinful responses to death on the cross. We don't need to remain trapped in those old ways of responding & bleeding all over those around us...

We can simply do the hard heart work to find out why those buttons are there and disarm them with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Healing is hard, but so is remaining in pain... CHOOSE your hard.

On the other side of healing is FREEDOM, joy & peace.