The flight response doesn’t always mean physically running away; instead, it often shows up in the need to mentally check out, avoid challenging conversations, or keep ourselves “too busy” to pause and reflect and be present with the REALLY uncomfortable stuff.
Understanding your nervous system can genuinely transform your journey to personal growth and healing, which is why, over the coming episodes and blog articles, we’ll explore each survival response in detail – fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. I was a “customer” of traditional psych and counselling for over 20 years and not once EVER was this taught to me.
Grief can feel like an unwelcome guest that settles into every corner of your life, making it hard to remember what joy, peace, or even normality once felt like. But grief doesn’t have to define you or steal your life. You have the power to reclaim your life, and in this post, we’ll explore practical ways to do just that.