Triggers are mental pain.

Pain is a physical signal that something needs healing.

You heal through rest, rehab, and reintroduction.

If you don't honor the signal then you'll keep getting the signal until you do.

Associate too much with the pain and you'll never want to figure it out.

Dissociate from pain and you can seriously injure yourself by doing what you can't quite do right now.

See the pain as a signal and you can simply say "OK, let's explore what this is and what we can do."

Mental pains are not as easy as physical pain, much of which we can't simply scan and diagnose.

So, get to know the pain the old way.

It's like pressing on the skin to find out exactly where it hurts.

This means exposure to the triggers in a non-threatening environment.

You don't test your pained wrist by trying to climb a rock-face.

Or don't ask your parents if you have issues from your childhood or tell them about your related triggers, for example.

Self-examine safely and slowly, ask an expert for support and don't climb rocks for a while.

There's the emerging idea of mental health is physical health.

There have been studies linking emotional pain to physical pain.

So, treat them the same way. Pain is pain. And pain is a signal.