This is a first episode on fear, more to come. In this episidode I talk a little about why fear needs to get more attention, and not as a bad thing!

Book referenced is Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear.

Fawn is the last F in the 4 Fs of survival responses that we have at our disposal when faced with perceived or real threat. Fawn gets a really bad wrap so it is important to understand how it tries to help us survive. This is the first part. Next time I'll be looking at how Fawn serves us, because it doesn't seem like it is helpful at first glance.

Again the book by Pete Walker referenced is Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

As I said in the last episode I wanted to give some real live examples of how the freeze response can operate in the face of real danger. Here I explain what happened with my survival responses and what I learned.

Don't miss next week's episode when we will take a look at the much overlooked fawn response as survival.

In today's first of a two part episode on the freeze response in trauma I again cite from the excellent Pete Walker's book on Complex Trauma and talk of my own frozen cross to bear - pun intended - in my own traumatic response repetoire.

Next week I'll continue with freeze, it is such a complex one, and I'll be discussing how freeze plays out in traumatic situaitons of origin.

Have a good one!

We all have an inbuilt survival mechanism, whether we are human or other. Our survival response is complex and if traumatised enough, it can get stuck, like a gear in a wonky transmission.

In this episode, I talk about my dog's fight response to his trauma triggers and my fight response to mine.

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In this episode, and referencing quite a lot Pete Walker, I explain why the Fight or Flight construct is only part of our range in the face of threat or danger and how the other F's play out in trauma responses to danger or perceived threat.

The book references is Complex Traum: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker.

When you are traumatised, not just any therapist will do. There are fewer therapists who chose to do trauma work, or for that matter trauma training and even fewer of them work in the public sector. So, why are psychology degrees not placing more emphasis on trauma training?