471: Breaking Free from Functional Freeze: A Deep Dive into a Core Wound Mapping Process
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Food Heels podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | Warning, side effects of this podcast may include increased health and vitality, |
| 0:11.4 | thoughts of living longer, developing a more positive outlook on life, |
| 0:13.9 | an increase in sexual activity, feelings of joy, cravings for kale and chemo, |
| 0:17.2 | and a spike in Tinder matches. |
| 0:18.7 | In rare cases, people have experienced a strong desire to put down the Ben and Jerry's, get off the couch, and take a walk outside. If you experience any of these symptoms, tell your Facebook friends immediately. |
| 0:29.5 | All right, welcome, Food Heels Nation. Thanks for joining me. I'm Allison Melody. I used to think that healing was linear and we could only go up from where we were, |
| 0:39.3 | but now I realize we can still have these deep valleys in our healing journeys. That can be |
| 0:45.5 | hard to crawl out of. And even though there are these things that we think we've dealt with, |
| 0:51.9 | sometimes there are still triggers. Sometimes they are still there, |
| 0:57.0 | deeply embedded in our unconscious, stored in our body, and still affecting our current reality, |
| 1:04.1 | even when we think we've done all of the work, quote unquote, the work. I've recently started |
| 1:10.5 | learning about and studying this phenomenon |
| 1:13.0 | called functional freeze. It's a trauma response where you can be a highly functioning, |
| 1:18.9 | high achieving person who still remains stuck in parts of their trauma and finds themselves |
| 1:25.0 | frozen when challenged to go to the next level of healing and |
| 1:30.5 | unable to rise out of that particular valley. And I realize that I have been in functional |
| 1:38.0 | freeze in many stages of my adult life. Maybe you have too. Here are some of the signs of functional freeze. See if you can |
| 1:46.8 | relate. You're exhausted, but you stay up late. You value sleep, but you can't fall asleep. You binge |
| 1:54.8 | TV shows or movies, but you can't really focus. You respond to messages that you have to, |
| 2:03.0 | maybe from coworkers, but not from friends. When friends text you to check on you and genuinely ask you how you are, you ignore them. |
| 2:10.5 | Not because you don't love them, but because you don't want them to know how you're really doing. |
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