Expert in trauma response, Luis Mojica, discusses the four trauma responses our bodies have: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. He explores their purpose, manifestations in the body, and how they can become stuck. Mojica emphasizes the importance of recognizing and transforming these responses, creating a relationship with them. He also encourages self-reflection and connecting with different parts of oneself.
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Trauma Response
Trauma is not the event itself, but the body's response to it.
This response is triggered when the body perceives something as a threat, regardless of whether the threat is real or imagined.
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Four F's of Trauma
The four main trauma responses are fight, flight, freeze, and fawn.
These are automatic physiological expressions designed to help us survive perceived threats.
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Fawning for Survival
The fawn response involves socially engaging with a threat to increase survival chances.
Luis Mojica recalls news stories of abductees befriending their captors to gain trust and escape.
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In this episode, I speak about the four responses our bodies have to trauma: fight, fight, freeze, and fawn,
Each response serves the purpose to help you survive a potential life threat. We're all here because of these automatic responses.
Learning the nuance of each response helps us better recognize them when they're "turning on". Through this recognition, we create a relationship with them and then they're able to transform and release.
On Tuesday June 28th, 2022 I'll be hosting a live webinar that explores these 4 responses deeply and offers exercises and techniques for moving through them, rather being moved by them. You can register here for that. You'll get a reminder and a replay.
Join Luis for athree-day in-person workshop connecting whole foods nutrition, somatic wisdom, and stress recovery at Kripalu. You can read more about, and register, here.
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