Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn: Understanding Your Nervous System’s Survival Responses

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Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn. These four terms have become part of the mainstream conversation around mental health and healing over the last decade or so, often travelling under the label “trauma responses.” Before going further, I want to pause on that framing. A trauma response is what happens when something in the present triggers a past trauma, activating a …