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The Good Girl or the Good Boys Nervous System Is Stuck
The good girl or the good boys nervous system is literally stuck because as a child, her self defense and her personal boundaries were not honored. And so over time when this healthy fire response was shut down by parents and caregivers, usually through shame, right? You're not you're not supposed to talk back to me. Good girls don't talk back to their parents. GoodGirls don't say things like that or good boys don't sayThings like that. So over time that fire response didn't work. When our fire response doesn't work, the nervous system has no other choice but to resort to a dorsal bagel state of immobilization. That can be anything from freeze all the way