Embarking on the journey to optimal health is like peeling back the layers of our own story. We’re all unique, with different symptoms, histories, thought, behaviour and emotional patterns, dietary needs, and life experiences that make us who we are – and that have contributed to our health – including chronic illness symptoms.

From both my own personal experience as well as in working with countless others with chronic illness over the years, working intimately on each person’s unique “trigger patterns” is often when clients see the best results for their health.

Embarking on the journey to optimal health is like peeling back the layers of our own story. We’re all unique, with different symptoms, histories, thought, behaviour and emotional patterns, dietary needs, and life experiences that make us who we are – and that have contributed to our health – including chronic illness symptoms.

From both my own personal experience as well as in working with countless others with chronic illness over the years, working intimately on each person’s unique “trigger patterns” is often when clients see the best results for their health.

Rewiring for Health

If you’ve been reading my content for a while, you’ll know that when we have chronic illness, we’re living in the fight-flight-freeze mode. Even if we’ve had no choice but to calm down and live a quieter, less stressful lifestyle since we’ve been unwell, our brain has registered past stressors as “danger” and our bodies have learned to react to our environment as if we are in continual danger. Add to that being ill which on its own is a continual stress on the brain and body.

When we’re under this stress, we prepare ourselves for the worst. Our brains are designed to fixate on what might go wrong, thinking that it is protecting us from all the bad out there in the world. This is part of our survival wiring. It’s a filtering process that scans for what might be a problem and then fixates on it.

It’s a good strategy for avoiding physical threats but it’s not a good strategy for healing.

Neuroplasticity shows us that how we think, feel and behave can rewire the structure and function of our brain.

What are trigger patterns and why do we have them?

Trigger patterns include our thoughts, behavioural patterns, and emotional responses. Remember that when we change anything and repeat it over and over, we are rewiring our brains. This couldn’t be more true than for our thoughts, behaviours and emotions which we experience every moment of every day.

Unfortunately we do this unconsciously with many (most) of our thoughts, emotions and behaviours on a daily basis, and this includes when we are sick for a prolonged period of time, thinking thoughts such as “other people can heal but not me” or thoughts about how bleak our futures look.

Thought trigger patterns

If we have worrisome, fear-based thoughts and we keep running them, they keep a biochemistry going in our bodies which creates a looping pattern in our brains, which makes turning the thoughts off by Will alone nearly impossible.

A client who I’ll call Jill is a perfect example of having some detrimental thought trigger patterns. Jill came to me with several symptoms including fatigue, heart palpitations, sleep and digestive issues, and chemical sensitivities to name a few. She experienced a significant reduction in symptoms after just two months into the Rewire Your Brain Transformational Coaching Program. 

However, her progress plateaued until we figured out what the culprit was. Jill had a trigger pattern of awfulizing about the future. She couldn’t stop thinking that something bad would happen to her and her children. As hard as she tried, she just couldn’t turn her thoughts off. I suggested that Jill do an extra 15 minutes of her brain rewiring exercises for a short period of time. During that time, I also did some Timeline Therapy with her, working on her negative thoughts at her unconscious level which allowed her to more easily let go of negative emotions. After only a few weeks, her progress continued until she was able to go back to work full-time again and start living her life more fully.

Emotional Trigger Patterns

Thought trigger patterns and emotional trigger patterns are intricately linked since our thoughts elicit specific emotions. In fact, if we have a passing thought without an emotion, it’s unlikely to make deep grooves in our neural pathways. It’s when we have heightened emotions that we create stronger neural networks in our brains.

Take my client who grappled with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for almost two decades. By the time she’d met me, she’d already done extensive brain rewiring, and worked with numerous health care practitioners. Some of her symptoms had dissipated but many of them remained and she would have flare ups for seemingly no apparent reason.

It wasn’t until we worked one-on-one together that the missing piece of her health puzzle emerged. The presence of a narcissistic parent in her life, triggering her stress response on a daily basis, was keeping her sick. This was an emotional trigger-pattern, causing her emotional turmoil and anxiety continually. Because it was a parent, this connection had created a well-worn neural pathway in her brain, causing her to react more quickly.

Establishing healthy boundaries with this parent and building her own inner resilience and feelings of self-love proved to be the necessary steps that finally initiated a positive turn in her health.

Behavioural Trigger Patterns

Aleesha, burdened with over 10 symptoms including anxiety, a skin rash that seemed to appear out of the blue, dizziness, fatigue, brain fog, difficulty recovering from exertion, and food sensitivities, saw the effectiveness of the RYB brain training and meditation, however something was still holding Aleesha back from healing fully.

As I talked with Aleesha about her day-to-day routine, I discovered that she had a bad habit of rushing. Rushing is an example of a behavioural trigger pattern.

Aleesha would stay up late which made getting out of bed in the morning for work very challenging. She would often lay in bed until the last minute, causing her to rush getting ready for work, eating and finally running out the door and racing to work. She admitted that even throughout most days, she would find herself rushing to meetings, and other commitments outside of work.

Rushing was triggering her adrenal glands to release cortisol, known as the “stress hormone,” which, in small doses, can enhance efficiency, but persistent daily spikes like this were keeping her stuck in a perpetual fight, flight, or freeze mode, and keeping her sick.

Together, Aleesha and I worked to replace her habit of rushing to more of a state of calm and ease. We discovered that she wanted to stay up late to have some fun and downtime, so we created other ways to get these needs met, allowing her to go to be a little earlier on weekdays. In a relatively short period of time, Aleesha had her health, and her life, back, and as she said, she stepped into an even better version of herself.

With the clients above, and most clients I’ve worked with, it is a combination of brain rewiring techniques combined with working with thought, emotional and/or behavioural patterns together that elicit the magic recipe for healing to occur.

Doing steps to recovery can sometimes feel overwhelming and frustrating if you’re not seeing the improvement you’d like to see with what you’ve been doing, often leading to years of chasing symptoms.

A formulated brain-rewiring program, coupled with accountability and guidance tailored to your unique trigger patterns, can bring about remarkable transformation and help you become both the healthiest, and the happiest, version of yourself.

Partnering with a certified health and life coach who specializes in neural rehabilitation and has walked your path and achieved full recovery provides the invaluable support you need to achieve your goals.

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