Ep #247: Functional Freeze (Part 2): Real-Life Stories of How It Came to Be This Way
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
#247: Last week, we began a vital conversation about the mixed nervous system state of functional freeze: what it looks like in practice and how commonly it shows up for those of us prone to emotional outsourcing. This week in part two, we're asking the question: how did it get this way?
You'll hear multiple real-life examples from my own life and coaching work of experiences that lead to functional freeze. It's so easy to beat yourself up when you realize you're in the pattern, but functional freeze is a brilliant survival skill you learned in childhood. Hearing other people's experiences might help you see that there's nothing wrong with you, and help you understand how to change the pattern.
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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 hello my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. I am loving that it's getting colder out. |
| 0:37.0 | Ooh, I love waking up and seeing the beautiful leaves changing color out my window taking Ziggi Star Dog are |
| 0:45.7 | terribly behaved. Little Chihua who I love so much out for a nice walk in the crisp air. It's been a really beautiful |
| 0:56.7 | thing we've been doing for quite a while now to take these morning walks and it's just |
| 1:01.9 | such a lovely time for Billy and I to connect, to just be together and just enjoy moving |
| 1:08.9 | our bodies and getting some sunlight on our faces. |
| 1:11.8 | You know, it's really important for your sleep, for your |
| 1:14.0 | circadian rhythm, to get sunlight on your beautiful face first thing in the morning, |
| 1:19.2 | preferably within a half hour of waking up when that's possible. And so that's been really helpful for both of us. I personally have a PhD in sleeping from the snorebon. |
| 1:31.5 | Okay that's a joke I made up when I was like 13 or 14. And I think it's just about as |
| 1:36.8 | funny now as it was then, like fully grown worthy, but I still like to repeat it because studies |
| 1:42.3 | show that I am really cheesy. I'm really |
| 1:45.2 | cheesy. I love a terrible joke. One of the things we do, we haven't done it in a minute, we should |
| 1:50.1 | do it again, is we used to have these like terrible joke parties in |
| 1:54.5 | anchored. We originally called them dad jokes because like that's a genre but like |
| 1:58.8 | terrible jokes aren't just for dads. I'm gonna put it out there you know what man? Like what do you call a cow with no legs? That's right, ground beef. |
| 2:07.0 | I love terrible jokes. Geez, I'm so cheesy. Anyway, yeah, I have a PhD in sleeping and |
| 2:16.4 | getting that morning sunlight helps me sleep even better. Much more better, so you can't knock it. And you know that no screens in nature, just |
| 2:27.0 | walking time is just really beautiful. Yeah, I'm just really rolling around in so much gratitude. The world is a flaming dumpster |
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