Making Sense of Trauma

Why Focus on Freeze, Flight and Fight?

Contextualize the importance of fight, flight and freeze response in understanding the impacts of trauma, as it is the hardwired primary survival response in our brain. Key Points: Foundation of being trauma-informed Introduce fight, flight and freeze as evolutionary survival responses of the brain Settling the body and the downstairs brain allows us to access […]

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