Our stress responses come with emotions attached. In flight we feel fear, in fight anger. The emotion that belongs to freeze is shame.
In freeze we submit to the one stronger than us, an ancient way of creating a social hierarchy. Shame supports that by telling us our place.
“The story follows the state“.
We cannot overcome our narrative of helplessness and chronic shame while we are chronically dissociating. All the attempts to exchange thoughts will fail.
We have to change our state first. The story will follow.
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