When there is danger the brain will always try to resolve that danger before experiencing what is going on in you. Threat resolution will always take precedence to action.

That’s why when trauma survivors often integrate this skill, they can see what is going on inside of them again.

Just like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn physically narrows your eyes so you see only the danger, it does the same emotionally.

How much of your life has been organized around placating a threat, versus acting in alignment with yourself?

And once we are not around the threat / threatened by what used to harm us, our real thoughts and feelings on a matter can emerge.

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