Ep #340: Recognizing Functional Freeze: Countdown to End Emotional Outsourcing
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
#340: Have you ever caught yourself saying, “I'm fine,’’ when you're actually anything but fine? Maybe you're getting everything done - crushing it at work, maintaining relationships, keeping up appearances - but feeling disconnected from it all. Like you're watching your life play out from behind a glass wall.
This isn't just you being "too in your head" or "not trying hard enough to feel." This is your nervous system's brilliant (but outdated) protection mechanism called functional freeze.
Join me today as I revisit functional freeze: the nervous system state I see most often in people living with emotional outsourcing patterns. We’ll explore what functional freeze really is and why it's not your fault, how to recognize when you're in it, and why understanding this pattern is the first step to breaking free.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, darling, if you're someone who's ready to stop performing wellness and start actually embodying it, I wrote End Emotional Outsourcing just for you. |
| 0:09.0 | Be a reader, be a pattern shifter, be a part of this revolution. |
| 0:13.6 | Pre-order your copy at Beatricealbina.com slash book. |
| 0:16.9 | Music book. |
| 0:32.2 | This is feminist wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, somatics and nervous system nerd, and life coach, Bea Victoria Albina. |
| 0:35.9 | I'll show you how to get unstuck, |
| 0:40.1 | drop the anxiety, perfectionism, and codependency, |
| 0:42.6 | so you can live from your beautiful heart. |
| 0:43.7 | Welcome, my love. |
| 0:44.7 | Let's get started. |
| 0:49.1 | Hello, hello, my love. |
| 0:52.3 | I hope this finds you doing so well. |
| 0:56.6 | This week, we're going to be revisiting one of my favorite topics to talk about here on the show. And that's the nervous system mixed state of functional freeze. It's the |
| 1:03.4 | nervous system state that I find that most of us who are living in emotional outsourcing are experiencing |
| 1:08.8 | all the time, because we find ourselves there so often. |
| 1:13.4 | And I know for me, once I realized that this is what was happening, it really changed my way of |
| 1:19.0 | thinking about myself, my life, my nervous system, and how I habitually relate to self-world. |
| 1:25.4 | Because once I had this framework of understanding functional freeze, |
| 1:28.8 | it helped me step into so much compassion for myself because it wasn't me under and overreacting. |
| 1:35.7 | It was my nervous system. And once I was able to understand exactly what was going on, |
| 1:42.0 | I was able to begin to make real and lasting change, and that's what we're |
| 1:45.6 | here for, right? To change our lives for the better. So I'm really excited to share with you about |
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