THE TRIGGER'S BROOM EFFECT
When so much about you has changed, but you are still you
This standalone Support Hub article uses the familiar idea of Trigger's broom to explore identity, change and continuity across a lifetime. If so many parts of us change - our beliefs, coping strategies, relationships, routines, roles, boundaries and understanding of ourselves - what is it that still makes us feel like us?
Inside the PDF, we explore change through diagnosis, trauma, grief, recovery, ageing and major life transitions. It considers the coping strategies that may once have protected us, what it can feel like to outgrow an old version of ourselves, and why recovery does not always mean returning to the person we were before.
A personal check-in invites readers to consider what they have replaced, repaired, kept, outgrown and carried with them through different stages of life.
The central message is: same essence, different parts, still you.
Space to Breathe Therapy
