Stuck in 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.

ALLY| Self Growth+Inspiration’s Instagram photo: “The freeze response is one of the most challenging responses to work with. The experience of being stuck is given by 1. the dual…”

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?

Caroline Strawson on Instagram: "The freeze response is a type of trauma response that is activated when your body perceives a threat and is unable to fight or flee from it.🥶 During the freeze response, your body releases hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline, which can increase heart rate and blood pressure. The freeze response also causes the muscles to tense up, which can lead to stiffness and rigidity. In freeze mode, the nervous system activates the parasympathetic branch, dorsal…

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…

Give yourself grace & compassion as you come back into your body from a freeze or shut down response 🦋 I often find that the freeze response is incredibly misunderstood in our world. You might think that you are lazy… when in reality your body is coping with high amounts of stress to the point where you freeze into a dorsal vagal shut down. It all comes back to finding safety in your body so that you can place a sacred boundary to protect your peace, release built up anger/resentment, & ...