Emotional Reactivity Syndrome SOLUTION
Reactivity Hurts Everyone
The Emotional Reactivity Syndrome
SYNDROME
The Emotional Reactivity Syndrome is a recurring pattern where every day triggers override our ability to respond calmly, reflecting a pattern where 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. In either scenario, fallout brings guilt, disconnection, self-loathing, and regret, only to set the stage for the next trigger. This ongoing loop is what called the Reactivity Syndrome Cycle.
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. (Different on the outside, but
both are the same reaction turned inward
or outward.)
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 don’t agree 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 in Reactivity
SELF-ABANDONMENT
Reactivity is not only a rupture between people, it is also a rupture within the self. In the heat of reaction, we abandon our inner truth—our calm, centered presence—and hand control over to fear, anger, or defensiveness. The sense of self begins to fragment: clarity gives way to confusion, intention dissolves into impulse, and the authentic self retreats into the shadows. In these moments, we are no longer responding from who we truly are, but from old wounds and conditioned patterns. This self-abandonment is perhaps the deepest fallout of all, for it distances us not only from others, but from the very connection with ourselves that anchors peace, resilience, and authenticity.
Soulution: Soulwalking Practice
What is SoulWalking Practice?
Soulwalking in Practice is a comprehensive program integrating emotional wholeness integrating education, guided imagery, somatic practices, grounding exercises, and inner child work supporting emotional wellness and balance. Its aim is to cultivate a soul-integrated personality by building the foundation of emotional autonomy.
Soul-Integrated
Emotional Autonomy
At the heart of the program is CSQ — Cognitive Self-Questioning — a six-step dialogue process designed to foster emotional availability and strengthen the relationship with self. Through this practice, individuals learn to move beyond emotional reactivity and impulsivity, developing emotional self-reliance, authenticity, and the confidence to express their voice while meeting their mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs.
Beyond Reactivity
Tired of snapping, shutting down, or saying things you regret? Emotional reactivity shows up as yelling, blaming, road rage — or imploding with guilt, shame, and self-criticism.
Facilitator
About Kim Baccigaluppi
Kim Baccigaluppi has worked as a Clinical Hypnotherapist since 1992, blending professional training with empathy and intuition. Over the years, she’s helped people facing anxiety, fears, phobias, addictions, and depression — all searching for one thing: to feel better. She found that beneath their struggles, two challenges appeared again and again — emotional self-abandonment and the inability to manage negative emotions. Both led to the same place: emotional reactivity.
With over 30 years in the field of emotional wholeness, he has created a unique curriculum called SoulWalk In Sobriety specializing in Replapse prevention. Integrated in addiction treatment facilities from residential, IOP, and mental health tracks, Kim inltegrated her program in group and individual settings.
in the field of addiction recovery, relapse prevention, codependency, and trauma with a specific focus on mood and emotion regulation.
Kim’s (9-month), high school program, ‘Teens for InnerPeace’ was integrated as an outreach program to the inner city's at-risk students of the Los Angeles Unified School District Continuation Program. 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 led 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. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx