#62: Understanding Your Nervous System with Sarah Baldwin
On Attachment
The Power of Tonic Immobility
There are three states of dysregulation in our nervous system. The sympathetic is like, think of it like a cheetah sprinting off. dorsal is the opposite, bear in hibernation. So when these forces come together, it creates something called tonic immobility. When we're in freeze, people think, why didn't I do something? Why didn't I fight back? And then you're like, find yourself organizing your junk drawer for the 12th time because you just can't seem to step towards the thing.
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