Ep #246: Functional Freeze (Part 1)
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
#246: This week, we’re taking a deep dive into a topic I can’t believe I haven’t already discussed on the show – the nervous system state of functional freeze. It’s part and parcel of the emotional outsourcing experience. So what does it mean and why do we find ourselves in it?
Join me today to discover what the nervous system state of functional freeze entails, and why those of us with emotional outsourcing tendencies find ourselves chronically stuck in it. You’ll also hear how it can manifest both physically and psychologically, and make sure to tune back in next week to hear the remedies for getting to the other side of somatic self-disconnection.
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| 0:00.0 | This is feminist wellness and I'm your host nurse practitioner functional medicine expert and life coach Victoria Albina. |
| 0:15.0 | I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism and codependency so you can live from your beautiful heart. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome, my love. let's get started. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. Today we are going to dive into a topic |
| 0:37.8 | near and dear to my heart which is the nervous system state the the mixed state, of functional freeze, |
| 0:44.6 | which I also like to call somatic self-disconnection. |
| 0:49.2 | We're disconnected from the bodily experience of being you while being functional or |
| 0:54.6 | often over-functional out in the world. This is a topic near and dear to my heart |
| 0:59.9 | because it is, well, it's what I'm most passionate about, about right it's what I've dedicated my life to is helping |
| 1:06.3 | humans and particularly human socializes women to recognize how the state is showing up |
| 1:11.6 | when we're in it why we're in it, why we're in it, and to use tools |
| 1:14.8 | like somatic experiencing, cognitive behavioral coaching, a whole host of other tools, |
| 1:20.4 | breath work, so much more, dance, movement, using all of my many tools to help us to begin to create another pathway, another option, another choice for experiences in our lives when our nervous system says, |
| 1:38.8 | oh, this is scary. Do that old thing where you totally check out and we're going to get into a lot of detail about what that check out looks like in a second, but when the body and the nervous system say that, I know that my clients have options. They have alternatives. After six months and |
| 1:55.6 | anchored people know another way to relate to their nervous systems, to their |
| 2:00.3 | bodies, to their inner children to themselves. |
| 2:04.0 | And that's what I'm excited to begin to talk about with you today and in the subsequent episodes about functional freeze, |
| 2:11.0 | because it's huge. I mean, it is part and parcel of the emotional |
| 2:14.6 | outsourcing story so deep. It's also a huge part of my own story. I mean, |
| 2:20.8 | oof, I was living deep in a functional freeze for pretty much most of my life and only really started coming out of it. |
| 2:28.0 | In the last decade, well, I mean in the last 15-20 years, since I started doing somatic practice, really in the only in the last 10 years was I applying that to myself and starting to see my somatic self-disconnection. |
| 2:41.0 | And then it was really only when I got out of, well, this was the work that |
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