Functional freeze response

Your nervous system can become stuck in a functional freeze state after living with chronic stress or stored trauma for months, years, and even decades. Here are some common signs and symptoms of being stuck in functional freeze.

Here's a free infographic which helps break down the difference between the freeze and shutdown defensive responses.

4 simple tips on how to get out of the functional freeze response

Have you been in situations where looking back you should have felt intense fear but instead felt nothing? Did you minimize or deny rather than assess the circumstance accurately?

What you need to know is that a dysregulated nervous system isn’t something you can think yourself out of. And a functional freeze response requires tremendous support at a body level to get out of. #nervoussystem #nervoussystemregulation #healing #somaticexperiencing #somatictherapy #somatictherapist

The autonomic nervous system is a control system that regulates bodily functions, over which we have no control such as the heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, pupillary response etc. The basi…

Somatic Exercises with Liz Tenuto on Instagram: "you’re not alone - feeling frozen / stuck / shutdown after prolonged periods of productivity and constant stress is more common than you might think 👇🏼 when you experience long-term stress or prolonged exposure to threatening or dangerous situations, your stress response system can become dysregulated 🥹 this can lead to a variety of responses, including the freeze response 😮‍💨 living in a chronic state of productivity, fight-or-flight…