Scott Musgrave, creator of Associative Awareness Techniques, explains that understanding how our brains react to trauma is the key to understanding how trauma impacts the body and our psychology. In particular, by understanding that what defines trauma is how evolutionary responses are activated, allow us to unload the unfair weight of social...
Read MoreThe fight-flight-freeze and fawn responses are the most characteristic behaviours we display under threatening conditions. Normally speaking, these responses, being evolutionary advantageous, are short-lived and not part of our normal state. But for a trauma carrying person, they become normalised and invisible to both oneself and
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