Nervous System & Regulation
When life feels overwhelming, your nervous system may get stuck in survival mode: fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown. These guides are here to help you understand regulation in a simple way, and support you in finding steadiness, safety, and ease in your body again.
The Freeze Response: When the Body Goes Still Instead of Fighting Back
There's a particular kind of conflict experience that almost no one chooses but many people recognize. The argument is happening, you can see their face moving, you can hear their words, and something in you has already left the room. Your mind goes blank. The words you wanted to say are unreachable. Later, often hours later, you'll think of all the things you could have said. In the moment, there was nothing.