Trigger Happy: Using Emotional Triggers as a Map Back to Your True Self (with Christine Knight)

Trigger Happy: Using Emotional Triggers as a Map Back to Your True Self (with Christine Knight)

From The You World Order Showcase Podcast by Jill

June 22, 2026 · 53 min · Season 3 · Episode 173

About this episode

Jill Hart and Christine Knight discuss how emotional triggers can lead to self-sabotage and the importance of subconscious healing for personal growth.

You can be calm, self-aware, and deeply committed to growth… and still get hijacked by emotional spirals that make zero logical sense. In this episode, Jill Hart (The Coach’s Alchemist) sits down with Christine Knight-who helps midlife women stop self-sabotage and break free from toxic emotional cycles-about why so many tools fail when you try to use them in the “logical brain” instead of the subconscious. Christine shares how Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps you build trust with the protector parts running your autopilot, get to the core wound underneath the pattern, and create real change without years of overwhelm or endless talk therapy. You’ll also hear a powerful conversation about boundaries, people-pleasing, emotional safety in community, and why what you say “no” to can open the space for your most aligned “yes.” In this episode, we cover: Why emotional spirals can override logic (even when you “know better”) The difference between the prefrontal cortex and the subconscious autopilot Protector parts, core wounds, and why affirmations don’t always land How healing in relationship (safe containers + community) accelerates change Boundaries, alignment, and attracting…

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