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Trigger Point: Break the Pattern Silently Running Your Confidence, Career & Relationships
Every leader has a breaking point. Not where they fall apart, but where their real story begins. That moment is your Trigger the situation that sets you off today because of an emotional lesson learned long before your leadership began.
In Trigger Point, leadership strategist Christy Rutherford reveals how one defining moment can silently shape your confidence, leadership style, ambition, and relationships for decades. When you repeatedly react to the same kinds of situations, which include shutdown, overwork, defensiveness, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and withdrawal, it’s not random. It’s a pattern.
Christy calls this underlying pattern your Trauma Default™. The learned internal setting that drives emotional reactions, leadership decisions, and relationship dynamics without your awareness. Once you can see your Trauma Default™, you can finally separate who you are from how you learned to survive.
If you’ve ever wondered why the same challenges keep showing up in different teams, different relationships, different seasons, but the same reaction inside, this book gives you the clarity language you’ve been missing.
Inside, you will learn how your Trigger Point and decode the pattern behind it
Understand the Trauma Default™ quietly shaping your leadership
Strengthen confidence without overworking or overthinking
Break emotional loops that drain energy and strain relationships
Regulate your responses under pressure with clarity and intention
Lead from presence, not perfection, performance, or protection
Move from external achievement to internal alignment
Trigger Point is the self-actualization stage of the Pattern Intelligence for Leaders™
90 Days to Burnout Recovery — Restore capacity & energy
Leading with Self-Awareness — Notice your patterns in real time
Trigger Point — Understand the origin so you can rewrite the pattern
If you want emotional intelligence in action, confidence grounded instead of fragile, and relationships that deepen instead of repeat the past, start here.
Your Trigger Point began the story.
Recognizing your Trauma Default™ allows you to finish it differently.
In Trigger Point, leadership strategist Christy Rutherford reveals how one defining moment can silently shape your confidence, leadership style, ambition, and relationships for decades. When you repeatedly react to the same kinds of situations, which include shutdown, overwork, defensiveness, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and withdrawal, it’s not random. It’s a pattern.
Christy calls this underlying pattern your Trauma Default™. The learned internal setting that drives emotional reactions, leadership decisions, and relationship dynamics without your awareness. Once you can see your Trauma Default™, you can finally separate who you are from how you learned to survive.
If you’ve ever wondered why the same challenges keep showing up in different teams, different relationships, different seasons, but the same reaction inside, this book gives you the clarity language you’ve been missing.
Inside, you will learn how your Trigger Point and decode the pattern behind it
Understand the Trauma Default™ quietly shaping your leadership
Strengthen confidence without overworking or overthinking
Break emotional loops that drain energy and strain relationships
Regulate your responses under pressure with clarity and intention
Lead from presence, not perfection, performance, or protection
Move from external achievement to internal alignment
Trigger Point is the self-actualization stage of the Pattern Intelligence for Leaders™
90 Days to Burnout Recovery — Restore capacity & energy
Leading with Self-Awareness — Notice your patterns in real time
Trigger Point — Understand the origin so you can rewrite the pattern
If you want emotional intelligence in action, confidence grounded instead of fragile, and relationships that deepen instead of repeat the past, start here.
Your Trigger Point began the story.
Recognizing your Trauma Default™ allows you to finish it differently.
140 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 10, 2026
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