A Father And Son Discuss Ways To Confront PTSD'S Freeze Response

Make Yourself A Source Of Safety

I think this is one of the better conversations about how to come out of “freeze” or “shutdown.”

I think it is actually the true, living, authentic self, shutting down the conflict averse, people-pleasing (which should be called people appeasing) false self, so I am kind of pro-freeze, in some ways.

When I go into “freeze” or its darker cousin “fossili…