Feelings Wheel - Reflection

A professional notices that a particular emotional state — frustration, anxiety, defensiveness — keeps returning across different situations. They describe it as recurring but can't explain the pattern. The trigger field in this tool is specifically designed to surface what they haven't examined: the specific conditions that reliably produce the emotion, which are almost always more specific than the client initially believes.

Hold the client on question 2 — triggers — and push for specificity before moving on. 'Not the general category. The spe...