Freeze state nervous system

Your nervous system can become stuck in a functional freeze state after living with chronic stress or stored trauma for months, years, and even decades. Here are some common signs and symptoms of being stuck in functional freeze.

✨Recognizing which state your nervous system is in can help you better understand your feelings and reactions. Each state serves a purpose and signals your body’s needs. ✅Our aim and purpose is to be able to navigate these states with flexibility according to what is needed of us in the moment. ✅A regulated nervous system doesn’t mean calm and peace all the time but what it means is it’s capacity to adapt to what external environment asks of us. 🔥For example, if there is a dangerous…

Not all stress is bad. Stress can motivate you to meet challenges and grow — but only when your nervous system has time to regulate in between. When stress becomes chronic and your system doesn’t get a chance to recover, it overwhelms your nervous system and pushes you into Functional Freeze. This kind of stress doesn’t always look dramatic. It’s subtle, hidden, and builds up over time, keeping you stuck. It might show up as: ▫️Avoiding decisions because everything feels overwhelming…

Our nervous system’s state plays a pivotal role in shaping our emotions and perceptions, often influencing the internal narratives we create. When we are dysregulated—such as in fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or appease states—our body’s survival mechanisms can amplify or distort emotions, leading to misinterpretations of events. In contrast, a regulated nervous system enables us to experience emotions that are proportionate to the situation, fostering thoughtful responses instead of impulsive…

Burnout Recovery Coach | Holistic Dietitian on Instagram: "🩷Try this practice! Functional Freeze is something I used to get stuck in often…. When things become too much or too overwhelming we might move into a collapsed or shut down nervous system state aka Freeze. You might feel a numbness, procrastination, a block or frozen energy take over your body & mind. You know you “should” do be doing something, but you just kind of freeze when the time comes to do it. And you either experience an

Our nervous system’s state plays a pivotal role in shaping our emotions and perceptions, often influencing the internal narratives we create. When we are dysregulated—such as in fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or appease states—our body’s survival mechanisms can amplify or distort emotions, leading to misinterpretations of events. In contrast, a regulated nervous system enables us to experience emotions that are proportionate to the situation, fostering thoughtful responses instead of impulsive…

Ally| Transformational Guide on Instagram: "The nervous system heals in safety. Not through pressure, urgency, fixing, not through tricks and hacks and certainly not on a deadline...but in safety.⁣ ⁣ We can't"argue" with our bodies feeling threatened or unsafe. Either the threat is present or remembered through a symptom or reaction in the body, a threat is present and the way to address this is by restoring safety. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 1. If the threat comes from dysregulation of the nervous system…