(Ep. 21) The Trigger of Faith and Religion

What if you could walk into any room, any church, any argument, any group you can't stand, and still be at peace?In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise take on one of the most charged topics there is: religion, and the triggers it stirs up in believers and non-believers alike. It's a careful, disarming conversation, explicitly not about changing anyone's beliefs, but about understanding what happens inside us when religion (or anything big) provokes a strong reaction, and why even a completely justified reaction is still worth tending to at the root.Laura and Brian walk through the common triggers people feel around religion — judgment, hypocrisy, and control — and, in each case, turn the lens gently back inward. Why the drive for justice can be old, un-comforted pain looking for somewhere to go. Why "they didn't do what they said they'd do" cuts so deep — it echoes the first time a caregiver couldn't deliver on a promise. Why a pastor's public failure makes more sense as a sign of hidden pain than as a moral verdict. Throughout, they return to the Compassion Method's steadying core: what people do matters, but who they are matters more — and being okay regardless of your external world is a kind of superpower anyone, religious or not, can develop.In this episode: 🔹 Why even a justified reaction to something big is still a trigger worth tending — not suppressing 🔹 Judgment, hypocrisy, and control: the three religious triggers, and the wound under each 🔹 Why "you didn't do what you said" hurts so much — the echo of a caregiver's broken promise 🔹 Seeing a public moral failure as hidden pain rather than a verdict — without excusing the harm 🔹 The "superpower" of staying at peace in any room — a church, a mosque, even the other party's convention📩 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