How To Break Out Of A Freeze Response
Trauma & Narcissism Redefined
Caroline Strawson
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever experience a sense of detachment from your surroundings? Even in the presence of others, you might feel as though you're not fully engaged.
My former spouse exhibited covert narcissistic traits, and I found myself stuck in a freeze response for decades. I was completely disconnected from reality, wearing a smile that masked my functional freeze.
In this episode, you will learn:
- What a freeze response actually is
- How to break out of a freeze response
- Practical ways to restore your old self
A freeze response can have serious effects on your body and mind. Together we can understand why this happens, who may be causing it, and how to break out of your freeze response.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you find yourself feeling numbed out, disconnected from the world, sometimes being around other people, but kind of feeling like you're not really there? |
| 0:11.0 | The words are going in, but you're not actually present. |
| 0:15.0 | This is what we call a freeze response and you will absolutely want to listen to this episode because I'm |
| 0:23.2 | going to show you a technique that's going to help you shift out of freeze so |
| 0:28.0 | you can start reconnecting with the world again. Hi massive welcome to trauma and |
| 0:34.1 | narcissism redefined my name is Caroline Strawson and it's absolutely my pleasure |
| 0:39.5 | to be here with you talking all things nervous system, all things trauma healing to help you |
| 0:45.3 | heal and thrive because let's face it, life can be tough and it's a roller coaster sometimes. |
| 0:50.9 | You sometimes feel like you're on this roller coaster going, ooh, no hands. It can be |
| 0:55.9 | really challenging. And one of the key elements I want to bring you with this podcast are tools and |
| 1:01.7 | tips and inspiration, get my teeth back in, hope, all of those wonderful things to help you start |
| 1:08.8 | to move on. And in today's episode, I want to talk to you |
| 1:12.1 | about something that I didn't really understand and didn't even know existed. And it was only |
| 1:18.9 | when I started to do my own healing when I came out of my marriage, which was with a covert |
| 1:23.3 | narcissist. But I started to realize that probably for decades of my life, I had been living in what we |
| 1:31.2 | call a freeze response. I was totally dissociated from my world. It looked like I was present. |
| 1:39.0 | I'd go out the front door and have a smile on my face and people would say, hey Caroline, |
| 1:43.7 | how are you? And I'd be the obligatory, |
| 1:45.8 | hey, I'm fine. How are you with a great big smile? Not actually realizing until I started to do my |
| 1:53.0 | nervous system healing that I was living in a world of what we call functional freeze. So functional |
| 2:00.5 | freeze is where it looks like we are functioning. |
| 2:03.2 | It looks like we're going about and doing our daily business. You know, for me, that would be getting |
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