Episode 129- Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn. Why your nervous system reacts this way after suicide loss.
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Episode 129- Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn. Why your nervous system reacts this way after suicide loss.
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Summary
Suicide loss can hit like grief and trauma at the same time, and our intense reactions often come from the nervous system trying to keep us alive. We walk through fight flight freeze fawn and show how self-compassion and simple regulation tools can help you feel safe again.
• suicide loss as shock, trauma, fear and loss of safety
• nervous system protection mode and why it can stay on
• fight response as anger, irritability and a drive for control
• flight response as avoidance, busyness and mental spiralling
• freeze response as numbness, exhaustion, brain fog and shutdown
• fawn response as people-pleasing, overfunctioning and caretaking
• why small stressors feel enormous when your system is overloaded
• practical ways to calm the nervous system through movement, connection, naming emotions and self-compassion
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