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How Does the Trauma Response Work?
The trauma response is a set of default automatic responses built into your nervous system that's designed to protect you in the face of overwhelming threat. We share some pieces of the trauma response with much more primitive animals, like lizards and chimps. When we start there and we understand that, the way that the system gets built and the way that we can work with it, then we can actually change.