How To Feel Your Feelings: When You're Triggered

Fri Jan 23 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC+00:00

Energy for Life Fitness, Yoga & Pilates | Brighton and Hove

Drunken Buddha
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How To Feel Your Feelings: When You're Triggered
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A safe, welcoming space to learn practical, trauma-informed skills to feel and heal.
About this Event

🎉 About This Event


How To Feel Your Feelings is a monthly space where we learn how to feel and heal ❤️‍🩹.

Each session explores a different theme: a specific emotion, inner experience or technique. You’re welcome to attend one or many. Each one is a complete journey in itself.

This month, we are exploring triggers.


Being triggered can feel like getting hijacked.

One minute you’re fine and the next, something is deeply not OK. Anger, shame, panic, or a mix of everything floods the system.

It’s one of the most painful places to be. And also where we are often most disconnected from ourselves.

We often don’t know what to do. It can feel overwhelming, confusing, even shameful. And then we tend to focus outward: on fixing the situation.

But even if we fix the external cause, the same trigger tends to come back. Because the real hurt isn’t out there, it’s in here (*whispered softly as finger points gently at heart-space in cliche mindfulness fashion*).

And it’s through allowing our real emotional response that the charge begins to soften and triggers lose their grip over time.

In this workshop, you will learn how to work with triggers as they happen, and get practical tools for next time you’re activated.


📅 Workshop Agenda

Together, we will explore:

✅ What is happening within us when we get triggered

✅ Why we suppress the body and ‘fix’ with the mind

✅ How to meet the hurt inside, without getting overwhelmed

✅ Practical tools to safely explore difficult feelings




🐵 Why Feel Your Feelings?


When you fully feel an emotion, it moves, softens and transforms.

  • Anger becomes strength
  • Fear becomes courage
  • Shame becomes authenticity

This is how we access the wholeness, freedom, and aliveness we’re really longing for.

Not by bypassing the pain. But by learning how to meet it, feel it, and let it flow.

If you want to feel better, get better at feeling.




📝 My Approach


Your feelings live in your body. So I take a body-based approach that emphasises the direct experience of the body here and now.

My approach is trauma-informed, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of participants above all else.




🤩 What You Can Expect


This is a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space where the golden rule is a complete allowing of all the parts of you.

We will be exploring individual, pair and group exercises, along with lots of time for questions and sharing.

These are designed to help you:

Connect safely to the body

Understand what you’re feeling

Let emotions process and release

Notice unhelpful patterns

Gently unwind resistance

Note: this is a group class, so we won’t be diving deeply into overly difficult emotions for the sake of everyone’s safety. We will be practicing foundational skills in safe ways that you can incorporate into your life.

All the exercises are optional, there is no obligation to participate or share.




👦🏻 About The Facilitator


My name is Ben, I’m a somatic therapist based in Brighton.

On my own journey recovering from alcoholism, I discovered the power of feeling as a direct path to healing. Now, I help others to do the same.

Everything I offer is rooted in my own personal experience of deeply feeling and healing.

Learn more: www.drunkenbuddha.net




✨ Testimonials


“Your workshops have genuinely changed the trajectory of my life”.

"I've consumed so much content on emotions and trauma over the years, and your work has given me more than all of it”

“The workshop was incredibly valuable. It was a joy to do with others and the hard parts were held with compassion and support.”

“Ben really knows his stuff. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to know - exactly - how to ‘just be with’ your feelings.”

“A warm, honest space with excellent explorations of feelings. I appreciated the humour and inclusivity of the space. The work is deep, yet the space felt light and safe for gentle exploration.”

“A very well-held, safe space with a great atmosphere for processing anger in a constructive way.”

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Energy for Life Fitness, Yoga & Pilates, 75 Sussex Street, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Tickets

GBP 10.00 to GBP 15.87

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