Adaptive Trauma

Don't go into the body. It's dangerous in there. You might feel something. And when we've been hurt in relationship deeply, it is dangerous to stay connected. So we want to go to that dissociated place because it's adaptive. This is just how bodies work. They shift into dorsal and addictions help you to do that very efficiently. That's a function. And so of course you're going to use them because they work. But recognizing that state in the nervous system helps to really make our way of understanding it just more sophisticated.