🌿 Freezing is not weakness. It's survival.

Do you freeze in conflict? Go blank when you need to speak up? Shut down during intimacy? Dissociate when overwhelmed?

This is the shutdown response—and it's not a flaw. It's one of the most intelligent things your nervous system can do when fight and flight aren't options.

In this somatic healing meditation:
• Understanding the dorsal vagal shutdown (freeze response)
• Why you go offline when others stay engaged
• Where this pattern started (childhood survival)
• When shutdown shows up: conflict, sex, overwhelm, social situations
• Why forcing yourself out of freeze doesn't work
• Gentle practices for working WITH shutdown
• Expanding nervous system capacity gradually

This is somatic trauma healing—validating your freeze response and offering gentle reconnection.

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Also on my profile:
→ "Why Your Body Says No When Your Mind Says Yes"
→ "The Addiction to Being Loved" (Anxious Attachment)
→ More somatic & trauma healing meditations

💬 Comment: Do you freeze or fight/flee? How does shutdown show up for you?

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The Intelligence of Your Shutdown Response | Freeze, Dissociation & Somatic Healing

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