Functional freeze is when someone goes into autopilot as a response to chronic stress and trauma. Unlike other trauma responses, someone in functional freeze can appear completely normal to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So, you've started to notice some patterns in your life, and you're wondering why you react the way you do. Emotional habits can ...

Most people think of people-pleasing as a harmless habit, but fawning is something entirely different — a trauma response so overlooked and misunderstood that most people don’t even realize they’re ...

Growing up in toxic households can inevitably shape how a person behaves and responds to adult relationships. Jeff explains ...

Most people know the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism related to threatening situations and events. In recent years, in no small part due to high-profile legal cases involving sexual ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As we wait for the impeachment trial to start, people are speaking out about their fears and the idea that something like the riots could happen again. Debra Mollen, a ...

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Our trauma responses can have benefits beyond our survival. My sons have been traumatized in ways I could never have imagined. They were raised chiefly by me as I tried to overcome my traumas and ...

Minneapolis is ending contracts with nine trauma response groups, including "A Mother's Love." The Neighborhood Safety Department cites funding shortfalls and a shift in focus as reasons. The future ...

Minneapolis’ Neighborhood Safety Department (NSD) gave 12 city organizations over $1.1 million to implement trauma-response programming despite questions raised by the City Council regarding their ...