Freeze instead of fight or flight - Learning what didn't work with the ex - Healing the hole in your heart

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Do you freeze when you get stressed? Learn what you can do to stop the freeze before it happens. What didn't work in your last relationship that you can take with you into your next one? These questions will help you become wise for the future. If you suffered a breakup and you feel that emptiness inside, you may have a hole in your heart that needs to be filled. I'll help you start to rebuild what's missing so that you can start to heal your emotional wounds.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the overwhelmed brain. Today's episode is brought to you by get out of the mess dot com quality attorneys at established law firms for about I don't know 20 bucks a month
0:12.1	Are you annoyed by affirmations?
0:14.0	Are you tired of that same old rehashed personal growth advice
0:19.0	that all seems to boil down to,
0:21.0	think positively and all your problems will go away? to then I want you to get ready. The overwhelmed brain is here to help you create the life
0:34.9	you want now. Hello and welcome to the overwhelmed brain. I am your host personal empowerment coach Paul Kolyani I am
0:55.2	here to help you increase your emotional intelligence strengthen your self-worth
0:58.9	and self-esteem and empower you so that you can make decisions that are right for you.
1:04.5	Everything I talk about in this show is my personal opinion and is meant for
1:08.1	information on educational purposes only.
1:10.6	Always consult a physician before making any changes to your medical treatment.
1:15.0	I'm going to read you an email right off the bat and it's from someone who's experienced something that a lot of us have experienced, the fight, flight, or even
1:27.9	freeze of life.
1:31.2	You know what happens when something triggers you and you go into fight mode, you want to fight
1:36.7	back, you want to be defensive and offensive and aggressive, or as you go into flight mode, which is I got to get out of here.
1:45.0	I'm going to like step back and stay away, it's too dangerous.
1:50.0	And then there's freeze mode.
1:52.0	Frees is when you are the deer and the headlights.
1:55.0	And my girlfriend actually goes through this.
1:58.0	She freezes if there's something that is, I don't know,
2:02.0	overpowering her brain or her senses she gets to the point where she can't move and I've seen this with abuse victims
2:12.2	physical and sexual abuse victims, where when they were children,
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