In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

When the neo-cortex overrides the instinctual responses that would initiate the completion of this cycle, we will be traumatized.

When our physiology responds to an event or stimuli with arousal, we do not move into an orienting and defending response like a healthy human. Instead, we move directly from the arousal into immobility and helplessness, bypassing our other emotions as well as the normal sequence of responses. We become victims, waiting to be victimized again and a

traumatic anxiety, a state that pervades the trauma sufferer’s every waking (and sleeping) moment.

The only way to consciously access our healing resources is through sensation and the felt sense.