Fight, flight, freeze or fawn✨

A colorful, handwritten list on notebook paper titled 'Signs You Are DYSREGULATED and didn't even know'. It details symptoms like muscle tension, brain fog, feeling numb, irritability, racing thoughts, hopelessness, over/undereating, and overworking, all indicating nervous system dysregulation.

✨ Signs You’re Dysregulated

#girlgrowth #lemon8challenge Sometimes our body tells us we’re not okay before our mind catches up. Being dysregulated means your nervous system is stuck in survival mode —fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. 💡 You might notice: • Muscle tension, clenched jaw, tight chest •&#

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🤍Trauma Responses🖤

Ever wondered why you shut down during conflict, over-apologize, or feel like you’re always in “go mode”? It’s not just you being dramatic or difficult. It’s your nervous system doing what it was wired to do: protect you. This breakdown of Fight, Flight, Fawn, and Freeze shows how trauma shows u

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A brown dog with a blue collar lies on its back on a light wooden floor, looking up. Its paws are curled, and a dark object is visible in the background.

Fight, flight, freeze or fawn

Here’s one of my doggos #wild one #wilddog #goose Arlington

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🌸 The Fawn Response🌸

✨ Many of us have heard of fight, flight, or freeze but there’s another trauma response: fawn. 🦌 Fawning happens when you try to stay safe by: — appeasing others — avoiding conflict — prioritizing their needs over your own, even when it hurts you. ☀️ Why it happens: It often starts in chi

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Fight, flight, freeze or fawn

#travelwithme2024 #embracevulnerability On a Alaska cruise

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An infographic titled "Trauma Responses" illustrates four types: FIGHT (anger, control), FLIGHT (avoidance, busyness), FAWN (people-pleasing, conflict avoidance), and FREEZE (dissociation, numbness). Each response lists associated behaviors. The image concludes with an affirming message: "You are valid. You matter."

Fight Flight Fawn Freeze

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🥊💥 The Fight Response💥🥊

When survival feels like confrontation 💥🥊 Sometimes your body protects you by gearing up to confront a threat, even when the “threat” isn’t life or death. This is the fight response. 🌸 Why it happens: Your brain senses danger & prepares to fight. This response helped our ancestors surviv

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Fight, flight, freeze or fawn

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🌬 ✈️ The Flight Response

🌬 ✈️ The Flight Response: When Avoiding Feels Safer Than Coping Sometimes our bodies tell us to run, even when there’s no real danger anymore. 💨 This is called the flight response, a trauma response where avoiding, escaping, or staying busy feels safer than sitting with discomfort. 🧠 Why it

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A person with long hair, arms outstretched, looks up at the sky amidst green trees, with text overlay 'how to RELEASE STRESS (based on your stress language)'.

A person squats with a barbell in a gym, illustrating stress release for 'FIGHT' through heavy exercise, music, boundaries, and talking to a friend.

A scenic view of a lake and trees under a blue sky, detailing 'FLIGHT' stress release methods like running, walking, stepping away, and driving.

releasing stress ➡️ based on YOUR stress language

if you haven’t seen my original post about ✨identifying✨ your stress languages, go check it out to find yours! it’s a short scroll 💞 but this one is allll about the solutions. when we find ourselves in a stress response (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) we do one of two things: 1️⃣ we act out the st

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❄️The Freeze Response❄️

Sometimes survival isn’t fighting, fleeing, or even fawning… sometimes it’s freezing. Your body and mind “pause” to feel safe, you may feel stuck, numb, or like time stops. 💙 You’re allowed to move at your own pace. 🧊 Why it happens: — Danger feels overwhelming or escape seems impossible —

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The image features a woman with a serious expression looking over her shoulder, with sparkling lights emanating from her head, symbolizing heightened intelligence. The background is a blurry, chaotic urban scene with police lights. The text "TRAUMATIC INTELLIGENCE" is prominently displayed at the top.

Trauma Made You Sharp… But At What Cost? 🧠⚡

Traumatic intelligence isn’t a formal clinical term, but people use it to describe something very real: the kind of awareness and “street-smart” intuition that develops after living through stress, chaos, or trauma. It’s not the trauma itself that’s valuable, it’s the way your mind adapts to sur

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Calming Anxiety: What Actually Helps? 🩵

Anxiety thrives on uncertainty. Trust me I live it! When our brains perceive a threat, even one that isn’t real, our nervous system can shift into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn mode. The goal isn’t to eliminate anxiety completely. The goal is to teach your brain and body that you are safe. 5 ev

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HEALING BEGINS WITH AWARENESS

Healing starts when we recognize the patterns, triggers, and survival responses that have been shaping our lives. Awareness helps us move from asking, “What’s wrong with me?” to “What happened to me?” When we understand our Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn responses, we gain the power to heal, gr

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have you ever heard of this ??

everyone talks about love languages, but do you know your stress language? A: FIGHT - 'you are wrong I am right' - facing perceived threat more aggressively - tend to have more extreme physical reactions - shouting/arguing/punching - heart beats fast - more explosive - needing con

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Somatic Healing Essentials 🤍

Here are some quick steps to do go each nervous system respond and to reset your body.. 🌿 shaking for fight or flight 🌿 breathing for freeze response 🌿 humm to reset your vagus nerve #healroutine #nervoussystemreset #healingpractices

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An open book with the title 'The Role of Emotions in Transformation' overlaid, set against a background with strong shadows. It introduces the article's theme.

Text on an ocean background explains how emotions are linked to psychological and physiological processes, and how understanding this connection fosters transformation.

A graphic titled 'The Limbic System and Emotional Regulation' details the amygdala's role in stress responses and how mindfulness helps retrain the brain for calmer reactions.

The Role of Emotions in Transformation 💫

How are our emotions related to our psychological and physiological processes? 🧠 The amygdala is a center in our brain that is responsible for our fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses to our environment. 🧘🏼‍♀️ Mindfulness, meditation, deep breathing, and emotional awareness and regulation

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And the answer is Trauma 🙃 have you been there? 👇🏽🤣 Fight 💪🏾Flight🏃🏾‍♀️ Freeze🥶 or Fawn😌. Sometimes Trauma Presents differently in the same person. I often see “Fawn” like symptoms in children who have endured abuse. These symptoms are a coping mechanism so that the person is not rejected. In

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🦋 Trauma & Healing- Not all wounds are visable 💜🌙

Trauma is not defined by the event itself—it's defined by how the experience affects your mind, body, and nervous system. Two people can go through the same event and have completely different trauma responses. What feels manageable to one person may overwhelm another. Trauma can happen aft

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For the one who grew up knowing they had to disappear to stay alive… When a child grows up in an unsafe environment, whether it’s abuse, neglect, or constant emotional chaos, the nervous system adapts to survive. Psychologists call this adaptive survival response. Bessel van der Kolk, author

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Trauma responses are learned

Trauma responses are learned, adaptive survival mechanisms shaped by traumatic experiences. There is no shame in surviving. When someone experiences overwhelming or threatening events, the brain and body may develop patterns to help them stay safe. Over time, these patterns become ingrained and

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The Shiffawn Edit™ | Morning Edition  Becoming Her

There was a time when I thought confidence came from having all the answers. Now I know it comes from living through the questions. I’m in my 50s, and this season of my life feels different. I’m balancing a career I’ve built over decades, graduate school, family, becoming a grandmother, and m

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Healing starts with awareness

Have you ever wondered why you react the way you do in stressful or overwhelming situations? Whether you run, lash out, freeze, or people please, these are trauma responses—and they all stem from a deep need to feel safe. This post breaks down the 4 common trauma responses: Flight, Fight, Fr

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Six no-bake mini Nutella cheesecakes on a wooden board, featuring an Oreo crust, creamy Nutella filling, chocolate ganache, and a mini Oreo on top. A perfect sweet treat.

Step-by-step creation of the Oreo crust: crushing cookies in a food processor, melting butter, mixing ingredients, and pressing the mixture into cupcake liners for mini cheesecakes.

Preparation of the cheesecake filling: beating cream cheese until smooth, adding Nutella spread, incorporating vanilla extract, and mixing all ingredients together in a bowl.

No-Bake Mini Nutella Cheesecake 🍫🧁

Yields: 6-8 Mini Cheesecakes **Ingredients:** *Crust:* - 12 Oreo cookies, crushed - 2 tablespoons melted butter *Filling:* - 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature - 1/2 cup Nutella spread - 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract - 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream - 6 Oreos, crushed *Topping (opt

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Signs You Might Love Someone with Unhealed TRAUMA

Are you in a relationship with someone who hasn’t healed from trauma? It doesn’t always look like dramatic outbursts or visible wounds. Sometimes it looks like distance. Silence. Defensiveness. Or love that feels just out of reach. Here are some real signs to help you identify what’s going on b

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Fight or Flight

#Lemon8 #fyp #trucks #c10trucks #truck

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An infographic titled 'The Body Remembers (The Body Keeps the Score Explained)' details how trauma is stored in the body (brain, heart, gut, etc.), its physical and emotional signs, and why the body holds on. It also outlines healing methods like awareness, breath, somatic work, and self-compassion to help the body remember safety.

🦋 Trauma & Healing- The Body Remembers (The Body Keeps the Score Explained)

Trauma isn't stored only as a memory in your mind—it can also affect your body. Even when you know you're safe, your nervous system may still react as if danger is happening right now. 🌿 What does "The Body Keeps the Score" mean? It means that traumatic experiences can leave las

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✨🖤Small Batch No-Bake Oreo Cheesecake 🖤✨

Ingredients: 🖤 Oreo Cookie Crust: - 12 Oreo cookies, crushed - 2 tbsp (28 g) melted salted butter 🤍 No-Bake Cheesecake Filling: - 12 oz (340 g) softened cream cheese - 1 tsp (5 ml) pure vanilla extract - 1 cup (120 g) sifted powdered sugar - 1 tsp (5 ml) fresh lemon juice - ¾ cup (

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🌪️ The 7 Main Triggers for the Nervous System

Absolutely — here are the Top 7 Nervous System Triggers that are most widely recognized in trauma science, somatics, and polyvagal theory: These are the categories most likely to shift someone into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn — especially in survivors of trauma: 1️⃣ Threat to Safety Phy

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When you shut down, when words disappear, your body goes heavy, and you feel far away, it isn’t weakness. It’s neurobiology. Your brain’s main job is to keep you alive, not to keep you social or productive. When it senses danger, even emotional danger like rejection, conflict, or shame, it move

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🦋Trauma & Healing- How Trauma Changes the Brain

Trauma doesn't just affect your memories—it can temporarily or long-term change how different parts of your brain work. These changes are the brain's way of trying to keep you safe, even if they become unhelpful later. 🧠 The Amygdala (The Alarm System) The amygdala detects danger and tr

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This Isn’t ‘Too Much’… It’s a Trauma Response

Ever feel like your reactions don’t match the situation? Like your mind is on overdrive, or you completely shut down? That’s not you being “too sensitive” or “dramatic.” That’s your nervous system trying to protect you. Trauma responses are automatic. They show up as fight, flight, freeze,

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Have you ever felt yourself spiraling into negative behaviors like (impulse spending, procrastination, avoidance, or even self-sabotage) when you don’t hit a financial or career goal? It’s actually not because you’re lazy, unmotivated, or incapable. It’s because your nervous system is runni

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Fawn and The Predator

Best friend's older brother Mafia king Strictly religious FMC Sheltered FMC Heir to the Mafia MMC Touch her and ☠️ "You touch any of Meredith's friends, especially Dolly, you will go down." - Sky #darkmafia #unfiltered #lemon8bookclub #booktok #romancebook

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A person with dark hair and glasses, seen from an upside-down perspective, points to the text 'HOW TO KNOW your body is panicking WHEN YOUR MIND ISN'T RACING' on a light-colored surface.

An upside-down person with dark hair and glasses points to a list of physical anxiety symptoms including 'Racing heart', 'Dizzy and lightheaded', 'Sweaty palms', and 'Jittery hands and legs'.

A person with dark hair and glasses looks up with a confused expression, shrugging, under the question 'WHAT DO YOU DO??'.

can you identify the signals your body tells you?

These are some ways I can tell my body #anxiety has me stuck in flight/fight/freeze/fawn mode. It helps to write down what I feel internally so I can remind myself that this it is anxiety and is normal. (anyone else constantly smiling in the mirror?? Iykyk 💀) ••• #mentalhealth #anxietyt

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Fight or Flight 🥊

If you've been feeling restless, tense, or constantly on edge-it might be your body stuck in fight-or-flight mode. These behavioral, physical, and emotional signs are how survival stress shows up in daily life. The good news? You can retrain your nervous system through small, consistent pr

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You’re not blocked creatively— you don’t feel safe enough to create. For many artists, writers, and creatives, what feels like “creative resistance” is actually the nervous system shifting into protection when expression starts to feel uncertain, exposed, or overwhelming. When the body perce

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Easy No-Bake Oreo Cheesecake 🖤✨

Ingredients: 🖤 Oreo Cookie Crust: - 12 Oreo cookies, crushed - 2 tbsp (28 g) melted salted butter 🤍 No-Bake Cheesecake Filling: - 12 oz (340 g) softened cream cheese - 1 tsp (5 ml) pure vanilla extract - 1 cup (120 g) sifted powdered sugar - 1 tsp (5 ml) fresh lemon juice - ¾ cup (

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Fawn Girl Spring

#gettoknowme #fawn #prairiecore #prairiestyle #trinkits

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American bully fawn female.

#americanbullies #atl #pet #fyppp #trendingvideo

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