Episode 3: Episode 003 : Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn

Opening the Window

The word "triggered" is often thrown around as an insult these days, demonstrating a lack of empathy toward those people, places, objects, and events that can cause some of us to exhibit what used to be called the fight-or-flight response. In recent years, two additional possibilities – freeze and fawn – have been tacked on. Most of us can point to something or someone in our lives that even if it happened years ago will still trigger us into a minor or major panic. I detail one of mine here – the loss of a close friendship – and what I try to do to control the freeze response when the trigger is unavoidable. Content warning: Anxiety, loss of friendship https://www.facebook.com/OpeningTheWindowPodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/openingthewindow/ Theme music: "Mistakes" by Adam Rabin : https://mailbox.bandcamp.com/