(Ep.32) Answering Your Frequently Asked Questions

What if you stopped pouring your energy into fixing everyone around you, and put it toward the one world you can actually change?In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise open the mailbag again, answering listener questions that all circle the same quiet, universal cry: my environment isn't okay — how do I fix it? It's an honest, practical conversation for anyone who feels stuck waiting for the people or circumstances around them to change before they can heal.Laura's through-line is the Compassion Method's most freeing promise: it's standalone. You can be okay inside yourself even when your external world isn't — because shame only sticks when you already believe it's true. From there she and Brian work through real questions: how to apply the method when the people around you are shaming you (and why fighting the shamers just hands them your attention), how to connect with your child self when you have no childhood photos or memories — even lost in a house fire — and whether the remote control exercise works on physical and chronic pain, not just emotional pain. It closes on a tender, grounded word about mental health diagnoses: get every resource you need, but don't let the diagnosis get all the attention — because you matter more than any label.In this episode: 🔹 "My environment isn't okay" — why the method is standalone, and how to be okay even when it isn't 🔹 Applying compassion in a shaming environment — and why fighting the shamers gives them your power 🔹 How to reach your child self with no photos or memories — because the brain never dumps the file 🔹 Can the remote control exercise help with physical and chronic pain? Why the body keeps the score 🔹 Holding a diagnosis with compassion: treat it fully, but let the person matter more than the label📩 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