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This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.17 It was an interesting experiment, but it did not fully explain why Julia kept going back to her violent pimp.

This is the Functional Freeze - a term coined by Peter Levine, whose background is in medical biophysics and psychology. He is another incredible contributor to our understanding of nervous systems.

We are wounded in relationship, and we need to heal in relationship.

Cultural Somatics, an area of study and practice that applies our knowledge of trauma and resilience to history, intergenerational relationships, institutions, and the communal body.

If the fight/flight/freeze response is successful and we escape the danger, we recover our internal equilibrium and gradually “regain our senses.”