Emotional Reactivity Syndrome Soulution™
One moment ... composed; the next you’re shouting,
shutting down, or collapsing inward.
REACTIVITY HURTS EVERYONE.
The Emotional Reactivity Syndrome™
SYNDROME
The Emotional Reactivity Syndrome™ (ERS) is a recurring pattern where every day triggers override one's ability to respond calmly. Unresolved emotions, past wounds, or perceived threats trigger impulsive reactions. Flooded with strong emotions that feel hard to manage, it sometimes looks like an explosion—yelling, snapping, or lashing out. Other times it shows up as an implosion—shutting down, criticizing ourselves, or carrying silent resentment.
ERS Soulution™ is a multidimensional program integrating psychological insight, experiential learning, and eduction designed to restore emotional balance, strengthen emotional resilience, and awaken authentic self-connection.
Self-Reflecting
Emotional reactivity wears many masks. Sometimes it’s loud and explosive; other times, it hides behind silence and withdrawal. When we don’t feel safe expressing our emotions directly, they surface in indirect or defensive ways—through passivity, aggression, or covert punishment. Each is an unconscious attempt to regain a sense of control, safety, or validation.
HIDDEN COSTS: Overtime, ERS erodes self-trust, contributes to chronic stress, and undermines relational emotional safety. Left untreated, it can contribute to addictive patterns, emotional burnout, and a diminished capacity for intimacy.
Inmploding and exploding alike brings a fallout of guilt, disconnection, self-loathing, and regret, only to set the stage for the next trigger. This ongoing loop is called the Cycle of Emotional Reactivity, (see below).
Cycle of Emotional Reactivity
CYCLE
1. Trigger
A situation, word, look, or stressor
sparks something inside. Often it’s
small — a tone of voice, being cut off in
traffic, a partner’s comment — but it
hits a tender spot.
2. Emotionally Overpowered
The nervous system takes over.
Emotions like anger, frustration,
shame, or fear flood in. Logic fades
and survival mode kicks in. You feel
like you’ve lost control.
3. Explosion or Implosion
Explosion: yelling, snapping, blaming,
lashing out.
Implosion: shutting down,
self-criticism, guilt, silent
resentment. Both are reactivity.
4. Fallout
This exhausting cycle damages
relationships. Peace and calmness is
lost. Regret, guilt, self-punishment,
self-loathing is ignited. Relationships
feel strained, anger becomes a wedge,
and self-trust is shaken. Self-esteem
suffers from behaving in ways we
disagree with. Loved ones become
frightened, and experience emotional
abandonment from resentment and
punishment cycles. Trust erodes.
5. Repeat
Without intercepting emotional
availability toward self, the cycle starts
again. The next trigger reignites the
loop, keeping you stuck in reactivity
instead of moving toward emotional
balance.
Self-Abandonment and Reactivity
SELF-ABANDONMENT
Emotional reactivity isn’t just a rupture between people — it’s a moment of separation from the self. When we react, we lose touch with our calm, grounded center and hand control to fear, anger, or old survival patterns. In those moments, we say or do things that pull us away from who we truly want to be, leaving us feeling isolated, misunderstood, and disconnected — not only from the people we love, but also from our coworkers, friends, and the world around us.
ERS SOULUTION™ — CONSCIOUS AWARENESS
WHAT IS CONSCIOUS AWARENESS?
Conscious awareness is the sacred pause between impulsivity of the personality and the intention of the soul — where reactivity dissolves and presence begins; the moment the soul awakens within the mind, allowing us to witness our reactions rather than becoming them. It is so very soothing.
LET US REMEMBER
The soul’s purpose is to guide us back to love — the place within where peace begins.
As the heart opens, judgment softens and the feeling of being separate starts to fade.
In that quiet space, our reactions calm, our wounds begin to heal, and eventually, love for self and others become the way we live.
Facilitator
About Kim Baccigaluppi
Kim Baccigaluppi has worked as a Clinical Hypnotherapist since 1992, guiding individuals through anxiety, fears, addictions, and depression. Over the years, she began to notice a common thread woven through every client’s story — a yearning for the same simple yet profound thing: to feel better. Beneath every struggle lay the same patterns repeating themselves — emotional self-abandonment and the inability to process or regulate painful emotions. Again and again, the path led back to unresolved childhood experiences and the emotional reactivity that follows us into adulthood. Kim felt called to create a clear and grounded pathway to help those suffering find freedom from emotional reactivity. This calling led to the development of Emotional Reactivity Syndrome Soulution™, depicting the cycle of reactivity and how it can be transformed. This fully integrative educational model illuminates and transforms habitual patterns of emotional dysregulation and self-abandonment. Drawing from clinical hypnotherapy, trauma-informed principles, spirituality, and insights to the inner workings of the mind and heart , ERS serves as an evolutionary path toward emotional autonomy and higher-self integration.
In her early years, Kim developed a unique curriculum called SoulWalk in Sobriety™ specializing in addiction relapse prevention. This program has been integrated in mental health tracks as well as residential and intensive outpatient addiction treatment facilities, individual and group settings.
Kim's love for group facilitation began in 2005 when she created a (9-month), high school program, Teens for InnerPeace, an outreach program for inner city's at-risk students of the Los Angeles Unified School District Continuation Program, Duke Ellington. Geared toward building self-respect, developing effective communication skills, and violence-free relationships; the program was hugely successful. Students assimilated positive coping mechanisms, learned to manage negative emotions, and learned anger management skills.
Her passion for educating inspired Kim to host and produce 11 shows on Time Warner Communications Cable Television covering topics such as Negative Self-Beliefs, Domestic Violence, Hypnosis, Pedophilia, Family Intervention, and Generational Addiction.
At her core, Kim is a teacher, devoted mother, and grandmother.