This is Dennis from the Anxiety Guy.com and you're listening to the

Anxiety Guy Podcast. Are you ready? Let's become more than anxiety together. Right now, let's go. Do you feel numb, frozen many times, unable to think clearly, feeling like your body is always weighed down.

Today in this podcast episode I'm going to go deep into why this is the case, why it was for me, and why it may be for you, my friends.

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dot com. today at the anxiety guy.com. And so we're talking about freezing,

freezing during my childhood days and potentially your childhood days and what's interesting with

freezing is that many of us have heard the term fight or flight but the truth is

not many have actually heard the term fight, flight, or freeze.

Freezing paved the way for suppressing my own ideas in the future,

hoping never to step on anyone's shoes,

and tippy towing around life.

It also contributed to a lowered level of self-worthiness for me, an identity

that was centered around lack and undeservedness, repressed anger that was taken out on others

in moments when an opportunity arose, mood swings, and much, much more. This is serious. This

freezing sensation that happens because of one or a number of different traumas and past experiences that have

happened in our lives is very very important. Now if you were like me you grew up with an authority figure that

was very very demanding. I grew up with basically an authority figure that was a bully and this bully

basically I could not fight back with I could not fight back with I could not fight back with. I couldn't

I couldn't run from the experience. I was a little guy. I didn't know where to go,

right? I wanted to run but I couldn't. So the third option my system chose regularly was

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