(Ep. 50) The Keys

What if one conversation, one workshop, one moment of desperation could quietly change the entire direction of your life?For their milestone 50th episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise take a step back to look at how far the journey has come — and to bring the whole Compassion Method full circle for longtime listeners and newcomers alike. If this is your first episode, it's a warm and complete place to start; if you've been here a while, it's a chance to see how the pieces fit together.They begin where it began: the January 2019 workshop where Laura and Brian first met, in the middle of what Brian calls his "great awakening" — and Laura's read on him then, that beneath the desperation she saw hunger and genuineness. From there they re-walk the heart of the Compassion Method: why shame is so debilitating because it says what you do is who you are, why chasing "good" traps us on the same hamster wheel as being "bad," and how the little daily judgments — a grade, a mistake at work, a snappy text — feed the knowledge of good and evil just as surely as the big ones. They revisit the three steps (awareness / comfort / discovery — or "feel your pain, get comfort, go play"), why "logic-ing" your way around a feeling is really suppression in disguise, and why healing is less a finish line than a lifelong practice of coming home to yourself.In this episode: 🔹 How Laura and Brian first met — and what she saw beneath his desperation 🔹 Why shame is so debilitating: it says what you do is who you are 🔹 The good/evil hamster wheel — why chasing "good" traps us the same way "bad" does 🔹 Why the small daily judgments undermine us as much as the big ones 🔹 The three steps revisited — and why "logic-ing" past a feeling is suppression in disguiseNew here? This full-circle episode is a great place to begin. Other great resources below! 👇📩 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