How to get out of functional freeze

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.

And how to unfreeze yourself.

Discover how to identify, manage, and overcome functional freeze with practical strategies and expert advice in our all-in-one guide.

Burnout Recovery Coach | Holistic Dietitian on Instagram: "🩷Try this practice! Functional Freeze is something I used to get stuck in often…. When things become too much or too overwhelming we might move into a collapsed or shut down nervous system state aka Freeze. You might feel a numbness, procrastination, a block or frozen energy take over your body & mind. You know you “should” do be doing something, but you just kind of freeze when the time comes to do it. And you either experience an

What are the symptoms of a functional freeze state? The stress response, explained, plus expert advice on how to deal with it.

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

Mental health professionals encourage people to watch out for warning signs of "functional freeze" in case something more serious develops.

Karen Berland on Instagram: "Functional freeze is a state of being where you’re there, but not completely. You’re in a state of physically going through the motions but not processing anything at an emotional level. COMMENT below if you want actionable ways to get past functional freeze and begin living life fully again. #nervoussystemregulation #nervoussystemhealing #freeze #functionalfreeze #functional #healing #emotion #healthcoach #functionalmedicine"

This is one of the BIGGEST questions I get. How does a person come out of a chronic shutdown and functional freeze stress physiology after they've been shutdown and not able to FEEL or process past emotions, memories and sensations effectively, or for many, not at all. Check out this vlog where I go into more detail around coming out of a freeze response. #freezeresponse #trauma #stress #healing #healingtrauma #selfcare #neuroplasticity #health #mentalhealthawareness #nervoussystem…