Visit thesomaticpt.com/subscribe to get your Free Trauma Flow Chart (a different graphic than the one used in this video). To get the slide in this current freeze video, it is available online with a quick google search for "polyvagal theory" and then click on the images tab. Disclaimer: Always go at your own pace and please seek help from a mental health provider if your case is more involved than being able to do yourself. I have rewatched this video today and counted over 15 times I have referenced going slow, titrating, working with someone, watching and linking previous introductory videos and saying to trust yourself if you can't handle something if there is a situation you have that I can't know or account for plus the disclaimers written in my description box, but someone has given me feedback that this is still not clear and someone might do more than what they can handle, so I am pinning this comment. Use your own judgment if you are safe to practice this on your own or if you need to see a practitioner to be safe. This is a general video made for education. This is not therapy. At 11:03, I say "dissociate to survive." Also, the jaw tension example I give in this video is for the freeze response. Jaw tension that is a fight response can be worked on by biting a tongue depressor. I will make a video on this.

@michaelgarrow3239

3 ай бұрын

At one point my brain shut down. I couldn’t think. I quit eating. Edit: letting bad emotions surface was a turning point in my life. People need to hear this.

@spaceowl5957

3 ай бұрын

I'm watching at 17:50 where you say that people can 'always handle' the emotions that come up. This was unfortunately not the case for me the last time I was in therapy and I feel like it traumatized me even more. So thanks for clarifying this. I really appreciate the video overall.

@Nina.Goradia

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience and constructive feedback. I'm sorry to hear what you experienced in therapy 🙏🏼 I have removed this part of the video so that it is not confusing for anyone who may not be sure what their capacity is or if they will be able to handle it. My intention was to reduce fear of feelings because that increases the intensity of the feelings even more, but I understand not everyone should be doing this, which is why I encourage people to work with a professional.

@Nina.Goradia

3 ай бұрын

Do you mean you experienced this when you were in freeze?

@michaelgarrow3239

3 ай бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia - Thanks Nina. It took me 2-3 years before I could handle unfettered emotions. It can be dangerous if you are too depressed.

I was taught that having and expressing emotions and vulnerability was not safe and caused abandonment. That's probably why many things I have supressed, but they are constantly with me, they never left. They cause me to live life on auto mode. No trying new things. No being vulnerable with people. No talking about my emotions/feelings with anyone. No experiencing joy. Just scrolling, going to work and playing video games mindlessly

@Nina.Goradia

10 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear this 🙏🏼 I hope it can shift in time for you as you begin to heal it...it's never too late with trauma.

@SueDamron

7 ай бұрын

@sylvia420 I really felt your words. I’m just learning about this too. I have also spent hours upon hours on video games! I just discovered a couple of books on this topic and another KZreadr named Irene Lyon who is also excellent! I believe there’s a healing path for this. I think I may need to find a place and/or a person, with this knowledge, to help me walk out of this tangled web! I wish only the very best for you!!

@FlynnRenning-im6yg

5 ай бұрын

"I was taught that having and expressing emotions and vulnerability was not safe and caused abandonment." It does! Every time!

@Robertsmith-un5cu

4 ай бұрын

magic mushrooms can heal your spirit and brain.

@mandybrooke

4 ай бұрын

Same 🖤🤗

15:19 This is so helpful to know! We will have to come back down from freeze through fight or flight and feel the supressed emotions in order to release them. Now that I know this, I won't panic because I know that the feelings will pass. And then they will be released!

As a certified Gestalt practitioner, facilitating inner child healing, this is quite useful, as many times a “trigger”, causes my clients to go into the fight, flight, freeze mode. In my work groups I teach clients how to acknowledge the trigger, explore it, be kind to it, and take the energy out of it through breath work. They learn new healthy strategies and anchors to shut the FFOR as quickly as possible and return to a calm and clear thinking state. Being in a constant state of fight or flight destroys health. After doing this work in my healing groups, I’ve witnessed so many participants lives improve dramatically. Healing the wounded inner child is paramount to a healthy existence.

@beeeesn

Ай бұрын

Gestalt practitioner ist that german? Are u german? If are u healing in germany?

@glacierhollowfarm

Ай бұрын

@@beeeesn Yes, it is German for bringing into wholeness. I practice in the U.S. I not only do this work in person, but also via Zoom.

@thirstonhowellthebirdandfriend

Ай бұрын

The problem with a trigger is it happens so quickly. If you get triggered and the response is to cry well that’s OK because crying is cathartic and that’s a good thing. Maybe you’re in public or in the grocery store and so crying as a response to a trigger might be a little embarrassing, but the worst kind of trigger is the one that produces rage and anger. It is so difficult to try and stop the response to rage and anger. One naturally wants to lash out and like our parents who beat us or humiliated us with their words or locked us in a closet maybe they were reacting so quickly to their anger they just didn’t know what they were doing until after it passed. The damage a response like that causes, never leaves the victim or the target of that rage. I think people can learn to live as a quadriplegic or as someone who loses a limb like an arm or a leg but you never get over that. It stays with you forever. I think it’s the same with childhood abuse and is the root of all the problems we have now in our society. Unresolved childhood abuse, trauma should be a retroactive crime punishable by prison time and fines.

@glacierhollowfarm

Ай бұрын

@@thirstonhowellthebirdandfriend 100% agree! My work group is a 12 week process of healing the inner child, from birth to adulthood. Many of the participants come back to do more group work or follow up with one-on-one coaching. I was born into a horrific situation, and it wasn't until I did the healing work, that my life was not ruled by my trigger reactions to everything. I was a rageaholic.

@meloearth

28 күн бұрын

@@beeeesn It's a German term, widely used worldwide. Look up Gestalt Therapy.

What we resist, persists.

@Nina.Goradia

28 күн бұрын

💯

Omg, I can’t tell you how thankful I am for this. I’ve been in therapy for years and also trying to reach out for help to anyone who would listen, I was becoming so desperate for release from this and no one has been able to help. Over the last few months I have figured out myself that this is what I’m going through, and doing the work on my own and feeling like I’m stuck in the pattern of allowing trauma to come up and then sending myself back into freeze. I am beginning to feel like my body is a prison for me.

@Nina.Goradia

6 ай бұрын

I'm glad this was helpful and also sorry to hear how hard it's been. I work with people 1-on-1 online in case you need guidance. I wish you peace and freedom 🙏🏼

@elizabethwhite8684

6 ай бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia how can I get more information On working with you?

@Nina.Goradia

6 ай бұрын

​@@elizabethwhite8684Sure, you can visit thesomaticpt.com and read the Contact page. If you want to fill out forms, we can have a 15 min complimentary consultation to discuss it more.

Thank you so much for explaining this. As a child I constantly went into freeze cuz the only thing we were allowed to be was good, quiet children. As an adult I’ve been with a loud narcissist for 23yrs and realize I’m in fight/flight or freeze daily. The freeze response majority of time and realize since childhood how often I do this for survival. Will be so good to have awareness so I can stop automatically doing this. So thankful I found your videos.

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼 This is great awareness and so relatable to many. Wishing you the best in healing this 🙏🏼💖

Currently in Freeze. This was a stunningly informative video. Now going to sit and see what comes forward.

@Nina.Goradia

4 ай бұрын

I hope it helps 🙏🏼🌞

recently the only way i am able to get things done is to acknowledge im scared and let myself cry while i'm doing said task. hopefully one day i can do tasks without balling!

@claraficati0n

3 ай бұрын

It is interesting as a child i always had underlying feeling that i was going to die. that i couldn't possibly deal with so much stress and everyday i would surprise myself by living. it made me angry at the universe for letting beings suffer so much before the relief of death. it felt cruel. i think the stress really effected my system. at 14 i got diagnosed with narcolepsy w/ cataplexy and at 16 I developed juvenile idiopathic arthritis and even got to the point i was unable to walk up the stairs. I was put on chemo and then the biologic enbrel and luckily went into remission for my arthritis. Still when I get angry I can feel it in my joints. I still have narcolepsy and take meds for it and probably will my entire life. Sometimes I wonder if I was just born an extra sensitive kid because my traumas don't seem as extreme as others for the pain they have caused me. Another weird thing that I have only known a small thread of people on the backest of the internet have related to me on. When I feel certain types of emotional hurt it makes my left wrist hurt so badly. It is a weird pressure point type of pain. Do you think I could get that to go away? Feels related to all of this but it isn't really freeze. It just happens when I think about loosing the people I love and then my wrist aches. Anyways enough rambling, but hey if anyone experienced similar things I've mentioned reach out :)

@Nina.Goradia

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experience! This is how you will find people who can relate. I'm sorry to hear all of what you've endured, but know there is hope. You might want to look at the Moving through Powerlessness video regarding the anger. The wrist sounds like a somatic symptom that arises when you think of loss, so there are ways to work with this, but they usually require 1-on-1 support (possibly for only 2 to 4 sessions though). I'm glad you're acknowledging your feelings and allowing yourself to cry...these are the steps to heal. Best wishes on your path 🙏🏼🌞

@winonafrog

Ай бұрын

♥️

I had this experience so strongly at one time before knowing what it was. I was deep in shame over a drug addiction resulting from childhood parental addiction, and was thrown into a new realm of responsibility and exposure at my job and the bodily response I experienced was so intense. I literally felt myself curling my neck and spine downward and inward, completely overcome by discomfort. I had the sensation that I would be physically struck in the face if I stopped resisting what was happening. Really intense.

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Wow! I hope you were able to move through it ok. The older stuff usually feels the most intense...it feels as strong as when we were a small child with a small body, but with big emotions and without having developed coping mechanisms yet.

@13371138

Ай бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia Thank you, I really enjoyed your talk

@Mark-bw1wx

Ай бұрын

Most therapists in my years of personal experience often do more harm than good. If you can find one that's highly qualified chances are you're not going to be able to see them because they're all booked and/or they won't take your Medicare or maybe even your private insurance anyway because it's too much of a hassle and not enough money for them. But yeah.... a psychiatrist who will lobotomize you with big pharma drugs will certainly take your medicare. Welcome to america.. So for many of us, after awhile we just have to reconcile ourselves to the fact that life is inherently unfair, we were severely traumatized starting from the cradle, and we continue to deteriorate in body and mind as we crawl to that finish line These videos with all their pseudo-technical and 'proprietary' terminology turn me off almost immediately. Which is why I can understand why some people would prefer to do microdosing of psychedelics let's say, or things of that nature to just get a paradigm shift all in one shot and not have to wade through all the interminable verbiage and all the enervating protocols of many 'advanced' trauma therapies. . Not that I've done the microdosing approach myself, but I can certainly understand why some people opt for it

I went into freeze so severely, that I am at the “preparing for death” phase. I have given up on life, and healing, and accepted the consequences of being overweight and eating unwell. I will not torture myself trying to get healthy, eat healthy, and not get medical support or results. The body suppresses emotions intelligently when it’s too overwhelming is true! I thought it was emotion snatching being done by other alters. Yet another thing on my list of, “things that were not cptsd itself.” My life goal is emotional well-being (emotional regulation). Hunger and physical health are the biggest contributing factors to emotional dysregulation, and emotional regulation. I went for the top prize, but just don’t seem good enough for it, even after having achieved everything else? I’m honestly just venting, because of the frustration of existing in an uncomfortable body, and not having enough willpower and skill to maintain my health.

@Nina.Goradia

11 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear of this suffering Yira 🙏🏼 Restrictive eating can have a lot of unhealthy effects on our nervous system. If you are deregulated, it's more important not to deprive yourself and make sure to eat saturated fats and avoid inflammatory and processed foods to help your brain and nervous system physically to heal and regulate. Other health concerns can usually be managed more easily after our nerves have enough myelin to regulate. I wish you much peace in time as you heal 🙏🏼

@ayesha8809

11 ай бұрын

I started affirmations and I really didn't think they'd work but they are. When I have any thought that just simply isn't helpful in any way I say thanks brain but that's not helpful please give me something else. I repeat I love myself and I deserve love. I've also been taking mdma which has been ridiculously helpful because it gets you in touch with your subconscious mind (your body) immediately and has helped soothe some of the heavier trauma. I was taking too much though so if you're gonna try it just be mindful of that. I'm actively trying my best to focus on the positive. I'm also learning to be forgiving of myself so no saying bad things about myself or mean things to myself. If I mess up or do something I don't like I now say "I am learning and doing the best I can". It's really been helping me. Also I'm taking much less shit from people. How am I gonna feel better if I'm surrounding myself with people who make me feel like shit. I never thought I of all people would learn boundaries but lo and behold, I am. You got this. You exist. You have a right to life and love and happiness.

@Rlove8687

10 ай бұрын

Hey I just wanted to say that you WILL heal. I know that because I was at that point too. It was so hard for me to do anything at all. If I left the house even just to go to the supermarket I would need at least 2 days to recover from it and even when I was out I was incredibly stressed and dissociating heavily. I was on high doses of two different medications. Everything in my life was a mess and it would take me about an hour to get the motivation to just make a cup of coffee. I was so shy and anxious I could barely talk to anyone at all.!There’s so much more to that. Now I finished a diploma of counselling and I just got accepted into studying psychology at university. I’m in a really happy relationship. I still get triggered and have hard days but even on those hard days I can leave the house. I go to the gym regularly. I have friends now. I even feel joy. I got off one of my medications completely and halved the other. I think I can probably get off the other one completely too but I want to wait a bit when I’ve gotten better with somatic experiencing and university. I still need to do a lot more healing but I’ve gotten so far already and I have only been practicing the start of somatic experiencing and I’m already less stressed and happier. Things absolutely will get better for you. I know it. I believe everyone is capable of healing. A lot of it is about finding what works for you to help yourself get better and to never ever give up. Giving up is guaranteed to make you stay the same or get worse. The more you work on your mental health, the easier it gets to get better and work on yourself more. But yes you have to be patient. Also you have already taken a step forward because you are educating yourself about this stuff.

@SomboonCM

6 ай бұрын

I buy food. Look at it. Throw it in the trash, disgusted that haven't been able to eat a bite in days or weeks. Disgusted that I bought food and wasted it. Then I go along in a pissy mood, looking like a skeleton with a pit of hunger that never goes away. I can't swallow food. I have a permanent scowl. I am not sure if I envy you. I hope you get better.

@rachelross5829

6 ай бұрын

I hope your doing ok. Taking supplements does help. Things like moringa and ashwaganda. I also take iodine and other stuff. I wish you well and wish I could help

That is why nutrition is so important, to lover inflamation, cortisol, ect

Great graphic at around 3:00. Using this theory, can you explain men's normal 'stoical' mindset. It has some elements of 'freeze' in it because we are not taking action against the threat. However, it is just not being carried away by one's emotions.

@Nina.Goradia

7 ай бұрын

Interesting idea. I think it could be on a spectrum with a combination of trying to have a neutral outlook, which is healthy, and perhaps some suppression of emotion. Thanks for sharing.

I feel like just listening to the 432 frequency is just as healing is doing everything you mentioned. The sympathetic nervous system, the hypothalamus… It is all integrated and frontal cortex/Magilla. I’ll respond very well when we just turn on music that calms our entire nervous system.

@Nina.Goradia

6 ай бұрын

I will try it!

@Lulubella1111

6 ай бұрын

This is a good one. I am an artist who has been through narcissistic abuse/cancer/moving multiple times… This has really helped to pull me into creation from survival. kzread.info/dash/bejne/m32AqcuDe6-3lso.htmlsi=XFu9Ft2BeV1Ur4cq

@CALIBA88

Ай бұрын

432Hz is flatearth for physical illiterates. with 2nd grade education you could explain yourself WHY and HOW it is BULLSHIT

You talking about the process with a smile, and what is clear passion for the subject, is very encouraging. Thank you!! I've been in therapy for over 8 years now, and at 30 it does feel like most of the baggage is cleared; however now, when finally expanding out of my "basement" (comfort zone and survivor mindset) into new challenges, I noticed these mechanisms turn up in the same old way. The freeze response is what I'm targeting now so it doesn't prevent me from doing what I dream of!

@Nina.Goradia

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words 🙏🏼 Best wishes as you heal this! 🌞

What a great informative video, thank you! I myself have been living in "freeze" mode for years now. I am so ready to release my traumas and become the best me. I am so grateful for this information. Love and prayers for ALL

@Nina.Goradia

3 ай бұрын

I'm so glad it helped you!! Wishing you the very best in healing 🙏🏼🌞

@cinderling5472

Ай бұрын

Love and prayers back to you, and best of luck! 💕🙏

amazing lecture! know that this information is helping real people heal. I have been dealing with an overactive freeze response for about 4 years now. The response triggers due to groups of people, so it happens multiple times a day and i rarely get to talk to anyone while unfrozen. The insight that this video gave me about my problem gives me hope that I will get better, thank you!

@Nina.Goradia

6 ай бұрын

I'm so happy to head this! I wish you much healing and peace 🙏🏼🙂

@tmking7483

2 ай бұрын

Your probably experiencing ' gang stalking' _ putting u into survival. I was raised like this _ they kick the puppy to feel better about themself_ you go into survival fear _ they laugh together _ you pee your pants. It's how they party _ mine had orgy after kicking the puppy 'me'_ I wonder why these people want children _ cause children cheaper than puppies and the government pays u to have them. And now I observe the government is now making us pay _ to put the abusers to enythenasua when we can call one out and make them go crazy_ a win win for our Egyptian rulers_ I mean Canadian government that fleeced us for the last 100 years that we would have health care if we paid for it _ and paid for it ......we did pay for our system of abuse.l _ so we got the hat we paid for _ asked for _ who are we _ Abusers making money off of abusing each other. That's what I'm suppose to get healthy for?sorry about the rant _ I just woke up

Whoa. This is amazingly liberating information. Thank you for sharing and making this available to all of us!!

@Nina.Goradia

11 ай бұрын

It's my pleasure! Thanks so much Chuck for your support 🙂🙏🏼❤

Thanks Nina! So helpful. The information you post in your videos are so detailed and I learn a lot from you. I love it! I look forward to seeing more of your videos.

@Nina.Goradia

11 ай бұрын

I'm very glad to hear they are helpful! You're so welcome 🙂🙏🏼

Wow. Thank you so much for this. What a gift 🙏🏻

@Nina.Goradia

9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! I'm glad it resonated 🙂🙏🏼

Thank you so much for this information. Your videos have helped me so much.

@Nina.Goradia

11 ай бұрын

You are so welcome 🙏🏼 I am very glad to hear they've been helpful 😊

Your voice sounds so soothing and uplifting. I can't even focus on the content. Have to listen again..

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Aw, that's so kind...thank you 🙏🏼😊

brilliant video. practical steps towards release trauma held in the body. ❤❤

@Nina.Goradia

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! 🙏🏼❤

So well explained!

@Nina.Goradia

6 ай бұрын

🙏🏼🙂

The traua flow chart explination is VERY helpful thank you so much for making this video!

@Nina.Goradia

4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad it was helpful to you! You are very welcome 🙏🏼🌞

This was awesome. Just what I needed.

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Glad to hear that! 🙏🏼🌞

You are very good! Thank you for all these detailed tips.

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's my pleasure 🙏🏼🌞

Thank you Nina! Beautiful teaching qualities that you have. Looking forward to more content in the future ahead. Grateful

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! Yes, much more to come 🙏🏼😊

great video 🙂

@Nina.Goradia

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏼

Thank you so much Nina! 💖

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

You're welcome! 😊🙏🏼

This was a wonderful enlightening conversation, it helps me so much to understand. Thank you, I need to hear it again and again to understand better. But... I am so glad to be able to understand, Thank You for laying it out so clearly, God Bless

@Nina.Goradia

6 ай бұрын

I'm so glad it was helpful! God bless 🙏🏼🙂

lovely comforting ASMR voice !! perfect for doing these types of videos

@Nina.Goradia

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Best I've heard regarding trauma. Often we are given information about trauma, but seldom are ways described to help oneself. Thank you very much. From Avril, South Africa.

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

🙏🏼😊

Very clear and resourceful !! Thanks❤

@Nina.Goradia

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! You're welcome 🙂🙏🏼

This makes sense

Wow! Loved this information. ❤️ Thank you so very much.

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

You're so welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊🙏🏼

Yes…. this is brilliant.

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏼

I knew back in October that I had chosen a tough path for the next six months because I lacked the intestinal fortitude to make the sacrifice. So I've been gearing up for these eclipses to open the window for me to release myself this time around. I don't regret the period between these eclipse seasons because I learned a lot. I'm ready to free up though. I'm a cap sun with placements in Aries and Libra. Mercury will station direct conjunct my Jupiter in Aries

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

What are the odds I'm listening to a vedic video about the eclipses right now as I saw your comment? I hope the energy supports your release 🙏🏼🌞

Such a great video❤!!

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!!

Move your awareness from the mind INTO THE HEART

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

💯🙏🏼

Thank You for sharing great knowledge and your part in educating Us

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

My pleasure 🙏🏼😊

Great stuff - thank you, Nina. I have experienced a lot of stress the last 3-4 years, and I think that it has almost amped up to the level of trauma. My nervous system does feel a bit overwhelmed...but I have definitely gone into a "freeze" type of response. Too many loads on the system, if you will. Thank you and God bless.

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome! I wish you much healing from the last few years now that you know what's going on 🙏🏼🌞

You are brilliant

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your kindness 🙏🏼😊

Thank you

@Nina.Goradia

5 ай бұрын

Welcome!

I claim this ❤💯

First time seeing one of your videos. I’ve been to a fair amount of coaches and therapists, even one trauma therapist. They all had the same thought that duality is normal, in working with them, they would all push me into a level of duality that my health and psyche would blow out simultaneously. This has happened many times. I’ve taken a break from all this because I’m not sure if my people picker is that broken, or I’m pursuing the wrong method of healing. Your chart here kinda vindicates my experience, carrying and dealing with all the past trauma, trying to get through what today brings, and creating massive internal confusion and divide on where I want to go. Gunna check out more videos when I get the bandwidth.

@Nina.Goradia

29 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼 This was my ongoing experience too. Non-duality or widening the perspective around identity and trauma made all the difference for me, as long as it was integrated with feeling my feelings vs a spiritual bypass. I'm glad the chart resonates for you. There is another chart, the trauma flow chart, on other videos you may like as well 🙏🏼

Thanks!

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it 🙏🏼💖

I've been living most of my life in dorsal vagal shutdown. I have so many health problems and I haven't been able to find any help. Thank you for making this video.

@Nina.Goradia

26 күн бұрын

I hope you can recover now that you have more awareness of what the issue may be. You can find an SEP to work with at directory.traumahealing.org or I can help you online.

Thank you so much for sharing this helpful information. I m in a freeze right now , and those suppressed emotions are hidden inside the bidy. The one that was mainly suppressed is the restriction of speaking out and expressing all the feelings with others . Right now, it manifested in vocal cords as VCD, where vocal folds are closing during breathing and speech that restricts air and makes it so difficult for the body to function with elevated anxiety and depression. It s not easy to concentrate and perform any mental and physical activity . It feels like you're drowning. It's not easy to swallow, eat , and drink water. Getting easily overstimulated when in social settings. It's been for there for a while, and doctors just puzzled. There is nothing really that brings joy at this point. I know it will resolve eventually. That I need to face that fear and let live thru it being in a present moment . To be grateful for each moment , and in that moment to connect to this condition and accept it from the bottom of my heart feeding it with love and thank it for being here for me to wake me up for newer and higher emotions of appreciation and LOVE ❤️🙏💓💗 Thanks to everyone for being here for me

@Nina.Goradia

29 күн бұрын

Yes, accept where you are now and give it love 🙏🏼💖 You might like my video Dislodge Anger from the Throat. You can use the principles for other emotions too. If it's too much to handle, a professional SEP can help you navigate the releases 🙏🏼

@susanaaronova5067

29 күн бұрын

@Nina.Goradia thank you so much for all your work and valuable info. 🙏 Where could I find SEP practitioner, or do you have someone to recommend ?

@Nina.Goradia

28 күн бұрын

​@@susanaaronova5067 It's my pleasure 😊🙏🏼 You can find an SEP near you at directory.traumahealing.org or I'm happy to help you with online video sessions 🙏🏼

@susanaaronova5067

27 күн бұрын

@Nina.Goradia thank you so much again, and God bless!!! I ll look into it 🙏🙏🙏

Love your videos 🙏 Thank you. Do you know of a way to find out what the underlying stuck emotion is causing my jaw tremor? I can’t tell if it’s anger or fear or sadness or what.

@Nina.Goradia

9 ай бұрын

You're very welcome 🙏🏼 If the jaw tremor is due to anger, it could be a vulnerable emotion underneath it. Check out the videos on stuck anger, powerlessness, primary emotions, any title with vulnerable emotions in the title, the other video on jaw tension that is the fight response (this one is freeze response for the jaw). Sometimes, we never know what was under it and it's ok to not know the label as long as we are willing to feel it through. I hope this helps!

@nickbaigent2714

9 ай бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia Thank you so much! This is very helpful. It hasn’t occurred to me that Anger might be protecting more vulnerable emotions underneath! Of course. And it must be best to feel into it rather than label it. 🙏👍🙏👍

@Nina.Goradia

9 ай бұрын

@@nickbaigent2714 💯🙏🏼

Superb video! Ty ♥️

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Thank you! My pleasure 🙏🏼🌞

Really helpful

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Glad to hear that 🙏🏼

Yesterday I discovered this theory. I’ve either been in freeze or riding the edge for a couple years now. This video is the third I’ve watched, I’m careful not to over-do it… the super short version is FREAKING THANK YOU. Hope validation and hope ( lol), have just appeared. When you said I will get out of here, this stage, I felt it. Actually I felt every word. But right now hope. Next? I need help, duh. I need someone to ask someone to help me.

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Awesome, I''m so glad you are feeling hope! If you want help in SE sessions, I can help online or you can find an SEP in person at directory.traumahealing.org. Best wishes in healing 🙏🏼🌞

Thank you Nina you are beautiful ❤

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Aw, thank you for sharing your kindness with me 🙏🏼😊

* me watching this, hunched over on the couch, tightly * "I'm not tensed up, how ridiculous, i am fineeeee" 😂😂 Haha. Thank you for this video! It helps... Lots of wisdom here. You have a sweet voice too, very calming ❤

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣 You're welcome! And thank you! 🙏🏼😊

Thank you. This is literally life-saving. I went to such a deep freeze that I wanted to end my life. It all makes sense. I’m curious: - what are your thoughts / experiences on somatic / holotropic breathwork?

@Nina.Goradia

14 сағат бұрын

I'm so glad this has been helpful! If it's too much, I recommend seeing a professional to help you through this. I actually haven't done holotropic breathing yet, but I've heard great things about it in the SE community. It is well respected.

Hi! NINA THANK YOU FOR SHERE THE VIDEO. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT WIHT YOU.😢

@Nina.Goradia

10 ай бұрын

Sure! To get started, you can fill put forms at thesomaticpt.com/forms and we will contact you once we receive them to schedule 🙂🙏🏼

Hi Nina, appreciate your content! How might one go about measuring the state of their nervous system(s)? Can HRV determine If the parasympathetic or sympathetic nervous system is active? fight flight freeze? I'm looking for a personal device that might be available to the everyday consumer that could help ground subjective experiences with the objective state of the nervous systems. What might you suggest?

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

It's a good question! I wish I knew for sure, but I do think HRV with a heart math unit is a good place to start. I use to have one and it seemed representative of what I and my clients were feeling at the time we measured.

Hey honey thank you for making these videos that have given me some hope So my freeze respons was quite severe 3 years and the survival stress is still present unfortunely and my system is very much acivated But I know what to work on now - but my question How do I get rid of the intrusive thoughts about this huuuge huge traume to go away so I can bring my system to idle and release some energy The intrusive thoughts brings hell with it as you probably can emagine Thanx

I have been in chronic freeze from about age 3/4 and I am now 61. Hopefully I can sort it and have a few great years. I have had issue with remembering data, times tables, ages, card games and so on. I always felt that I was stupid because of it, However bravery led me to Uni where I realized, the material is in my mind, but I am unable to recall it directly. But given multiple choice tests, I excelled. How does chronic freezing impact on learning and memory? Thanks.

@Nina.Goradia

4 ай бұрын

That's wonderful you are excelling at it with the format change! Chronic freeze puts our brain in survival state. It's very hard to learn when we are simply trying to stay alive, as all resources go to that and our brains are flooded with cortisol. We need to feel safe and calm to learn optimally.

@DogsReignSupreme

4 ай бұрын

Thanks @@Nina.Goradia

@claraficati0n

3 ай бұрын

i have also been in chronic freeze from around that age. i hope you are healing. 🫶

@DogsReignSupreme

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! You too. @@claraficati0n

@katydid6920

Ай бұрын

​@@Nina.GoradiaI'm screwed

I always try to feel the emotions but so many years of bracing against them. I end up doing this work bavkwards. How can we begin to feel from the beginning?? Rather than having to go into Freeze at all? I know i braced because i was afraid of fear and anxiety. So that was how i coped. But now i want to connect with my body and feel again........ Do you offer 1on1? Sessions... P.s. i love the concept of normalizing freeze. I always have freaked out and quit jobs because it spirals me into not feeling well and anxious about not feeling well and not ever knowing what it was. Until now.

@Nina.Goradia

10 ай бұрын

I hear you! It's hard to feel from the beginning if our baseline is already in freeze. So, we need to unwind what we have built up until now and work through the freeze response over time to bring our baseline low enough that we don't automatically go into freeze with small triggers. Eventually, we start feeling from the beginning again. Yes, I offer sessions online! To get started, you can fill out forms at thesomaticpt.com/forms. Once we receive your forms, we will email you to set up an appointment :)

Amazing video!! really,i loved it!very good explained and totally agree with your method!!Imediate subscribe

@Nina.Goradia

6 ай бұрын

I'm so happy it resonates for you! 🙏🏼🙂

Hi @nina.goradia I always find paradoxical when someone talks about not believing thoughts. When they speak, isn't it the expression out loud of thoughts ? Does it mean the words spoken are not believed ? I'm genuinely interested in your thoughts about this :)

@Nina.Goradia

22 күн бұрын

Hi! I am discussing the validity of thoughts. For example, I can say "the moon is made of cheese" and yes it is a thought, but the moon isn't actually made of cheese. So the thought isn't true. Many of our thoughts are like this. We think we aren't good enough or have black and white thinking, but we need to examine if these thoughts or views are actually true or of they are simply false statements that we are believing. When we believe them, we give them power and it can cause us suffering because we are not living in the clearest truest reality. Hope this helps! 😊🙏🏼

@Nina.Goradia

22 күн бұрын

Oh, you might want to check put my Disproving Thoughts playlist 😊🙏🏼

@cybercouac

21 күн бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia It does help, thank you for taking the time to write it. The way you put it makes sense to me, thanks !

So I’ve Prichard a course on healing freeze response , unfortunately it doesn’t come with any sort of support . But In the course it’s kind of the same principle relaxing out of dissociation , constantly relaxing all ur body. But idk I’ve been doing it for a while, and I’ve noticed I’m getting new dissociation symptoms and dissociation has been at an all time high for me and no one seems to give me an answer as to why? I’ve been doing this work for a long time now. Feeling very confused on why symptoms are getting worse and more are coming ? Symptoms that I haven’t had since original trauma and symptoms as a teen.

@Nina.Goradia

3 ай бұрын

This work really needs to be done with an SEP if you're having more symptoms. I know I couldn't have done it by myself in the beginning. You definitely need guidance. I wouldn't continue on your own if your symptoms are worsening. Once you address what the issue is with an SEP, you can probably resume on your own (based on their recommendation).

I get powerful involuntary body movements is this coming from freeze when its trying to clear out?

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

It can be. Might want to get it evaluated by your health care provider as well just to rule out physical etiology. And an SEP can help determine the nervous system activation component if they can see what is happening and when.

What was the previous video you mentioned a couple times?

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

Can you give me a timestamp?

@garrettley6353

2 ай бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia 1:12 :)

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

​​@@garrettley6353 Ah, here it is 😊 kzread.info/dash/bejne/mJ97utx7fLzec7A.html

Hi. Could you tell me please. I have a freeze emotion on my face, on forehead. Its looks like im scary or angry, and in past i have a difficult childhood with abuse and few dangeros situation recently. Sometimes i feel like i am very small and i scary to go out home, but if i came out i feel better. What would it be on my face, what is the freeze emotion, what should i learn on your channel?

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

It could be a freeze response in the face, but I can't tell from a comment online. I would have to see and work with someone to have more information. A freeze response is covering fight or flight survival energies underneath it. There's possibly 100's of things to learn on this channel, but the main takeaway of this video is to: 1. Understand how the freeze response works. 2. See if it resonates for you and your experience. 3. *If* it's a small trigger, safe and manageable for you, possibly try to relax the braced area by 10% and feel through any underlying emotion. 4. See an SEP or other trauma professional if it's too big to do on your own to learn techniques to make processing the emotion much easier.

Is dorsal and freeze the same thing?? There’s so many different explanations for this. You seem to know a lot. Are they the same? In other words are the techniques to heal them the same?

@Nina.Goradia

10 күн бұрын

"Dorsal" in this case, means "the back of." So "dorsal vagal" means "the back of the Vagus nerve," which is responsible for the freeze response. So "dorsal vagal freeze" refers to the freeze response and it's the same thing that you're thinking of. The techniques would be the same 🙏🏼

Mine are freeze with pain, neck shoulder back, trying to get better. So holding abandonment pain, emotional pain in neck?

@Freedomexpresstrain

Ай бұрын

Is this cyclothimia?

@Nina.Goradia

29 күн бұрын

It could be. You'd need to explore it to see what fight or flight emotions come up when you relax it. If it's too much to handle on your own, a professional SEP can help you navigate it 🙏🏼

@Nina.Goradia

29 күн бұрын

A professional would have to evaluate what it is, but this channel is referring to emotional trauma stored in the body 🙏🏼

Any material you'd recommend to someone that cant function at all do to severe shutdown/freeze/depression? Im just exhausted all the time and ive isolated and i've been like this forever and im lost.

@Nina.Goradia

11 күн бұрын

So sorry you're going through this. I've been there too and needed help. If you don't have enough capacity on your own right now (which is often the case with trauma), we need to pull in other resources. Would you consider working with an SEP to help you unwind it bit by bit? If money is an issue, there are some who are volunteering or giving steep sliding scale that I can refer you to.

@mischievousmuffin5568

11 күн бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia I would absolutely be interested and be eternally grateful. Im just stuck in some sort of distorted hellish state. I can only cut through my thick black mind haze with stimulants(coffee primarily) but they cause issues and quickly exhaust me. Unsustainable for more than a few days, followed by 2 days or more laying around depressed and confused in solitude. Always suffering. I dont really know what to do. I cant even communicate with people without caffeine in a capacity that can be pawned off as normal. Im 33 and i can't function in the world. Desperately seeking my redemption ark. Money is hard for me to come by and anything covered by insurance seems to be ineffective. I have recently started putting my feelers out again and found this polyvagal theory stuff, and that, i guess, has lead me here. The things im hearing from the poly vagal theory oriented videos are ringing true to me when I apply it to myself. Not sure if this is the end all be all for me but i gotta find something and start trying again. Any help is greatly appreciated. Im just getting older by the second and im not growing as a person. Just more hollow and less hopeful. I dont wish to have spent an entire lifetime never having lived at all. I have to say no to life because i cant take the anxiety and the stimulants i need to appreciate things burn me out too much. Truly cursed and not from a lack of trying to fix myself.

@Nina.Goradia

10 күн бұрын

This sounds so difficult. Please don't give up. Remember, this work is not about fixing self (that's resistance which keeps the emotion stuck), but about self acceptance to allow emotions to flow and release. If you go to the facebook groups "Somatic Experiencing" and "Somatic Experiencing Community Care," you can post a request for free or discounted sessions. I've seen many people reply to posts before. I hope you use all the sessions you can get and hope you get some relief 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@mischievousmuffin5568

10 күн бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia Thank you so very much for the information. I will check it out and hang tight to hope. Great videos btw.

@Nina.Goradia

10 күн бұрын

​@@mischievousmuffin5568​Great, you can make it through 🙏🏼 I will have group programs at some point that could be a helpful adjunct, but it will definitely be good for you to work with someone one on one in this situation. And thanks, I'm glad you like the channel 🙏🏼😊

I was drugged a year ago it gave me dpdr, like I'm a different self. I've always had cptsd which manifested as my nervous system was in fight or flight for years, however I was doing things to manage it. Now I'm completely traumatized and numb for a year. No emotions, even my anxiety is completely gone. My brain is shutting down, just walking outside causes my brain to overload, there's literally a barrier in my brain. Does emdr even work for freeze state? I feel like I need to activate my fight or flight and get my anxiety back, but I can't. Your supposed to find a trigger, but my trigger was the health anxiety that came from the drug and I've never been able to replicate that fear because it already happened if that makes sense?

@Nina.Goradia

29 күн бұрын

So sorry this happened 🙏🏼 You don't want to try to activate the anxiety in this case. You want to relax your mind and body musculature out of freeze for the fight or flight under the freeze response to become accessible. See my video how to relax out of freeze. Your case sounds severe enough that you may want to seek a professional to guide you through it safely, a little at a time, so it's not retraumatizing 🙏🏼

@Nina.Goradia

29 күн бұрын

I'm not trained in EMDR, but Somatic Experiencing is more gentle for a situation like what you're describing.

@kristenlangdon4229

29 күн бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia in all my research it seems like I'm going into shutdown, which is even above freeze and I need to get back to fight or flight through anxiety - how do I get into fight or flight through relaxing, wouldn't that do the opposite, like make me even more calm and numbed out? Cuz I'm basically dead right now, and I know that when I had anxiety long before I was drugged (like I can remember having anxiety since I was little) I was always hyper vigilant and in fight or flight all the time - but I still felt alive. And I had all my emotions. I can't really feel emotions anymore, like everything is just slowly turning off

@Nina.Goradia

29 күн бұрын

​@@kristenlangdon4229 You would need to work with a professional to help you come out of it. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't do it on my own, even with all my training.

@kristenlangdon4229

29 күн бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia I have a therapist doing emdr with me and I've done some progressive muscle relaxation and yoga, but I suppose I'm just confused about how relaxing is what gets you to go back into fight or flight level. I would think you need to reintroduce some stress?

How to get Olivia Hernandez out of the freeze response and have her whistleblow on Rice with a lawsuit ready in place against the school if they choose to retaliate? Take down Vogt, or keep this up?

How do I recognize my triggers when I don’t even know when I’m behaving in a way that was caused by me being triggered?

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

It's a good question. We want to become as present as possible to notice sensations in our bodies that occur when we are triggered. It also helps to ask others around us to let us know when they see we are triggered, so we can become more conscious of our unconscious patterns. Then it is on our radar.

I'm pretty flaccid even though I think I'm in chronic freeze. Thoughts?

@Nina.Goradia

4 ай бұрын

Interesting. What symptoms seem to indicate you're in freeze? If you identify with the indicators of freeze at the top of the infographic like shame, dissociation, etc...it might just look like stillness of the body or limitations in spontaneous movement and energy...muscles being still when triggered rather than developing tone. Just a guess, as there are other possibilities. Hard for me to tell online, but something to explore 🙏🏼

@theburrow1thomas

4 ай бұрын

Whenever I'm asked to do body scans, I've never felt anything. I have had depression with dissociation when I was young, but currently, I'm trying to redevelop my sense of self so I can find purpose/significance/direction after my empty nest. I'm not having any strong feelings of depression, just blah and certainly not anxiety, but everything I research comes back to polyvagal. Interestingly, I had a Garmin watch this year which showed my cortisol as trash, but I have always felt totally fine!! Lol, I should submit myself to actual scientific study. 🤣

@Nina.Goradia

4 ай бұрын

Wow, so interesting. I can't diagnose and of course this is online and I don't know you, but maybe see a practitioner and investigate with them if it's emotional numbness and dissociation, which would also be freeze.

@theburrow1thomas

4 ай бұрын

@Nina.Goradia I'm working with my therapist on this, but not really getting anywhere. I think newer developments like what you're describing here are where the field is going, though, and hopefully, she and others can evolve the practice a bit. Thanks for your work!

@Nina.Goradia

4 ай бұрын

​@@theburrow1thomas It's my pleasure. I use non-dual somatic techniques, which are very quick and efficient to start coming out of freeze, if you ever want to try. I could teach them to you in about 2 sessions and then you could continue with your therapist just incorporating these. Of course, decide what is best for you and best wishes on this healing journey 🙏🏼🌞

At what point were the actual instructions given please? I must have missed something, maybe dissociated

@Nina.Goradia

10 ай бұрын

I would rewatch the whole thing if you can because it's all pointers to be aware of when following the instructions.

I’ve been in freeze for years, can’t get out..

@Nina.Goradia

4 ай бұрын

Have you worked with anyone yet? I hope an SEP or other professional can guide you through this!

@Althea1111

3 ай бұрын

@@Nina.Goradia Thank you, I haven’t found a practitioner yet but I’m looking into it.. 🙏

@Nina.Goradia

3 ай бұрын

@@Althea1111 Great. You can look up the SE directory to find one in person near you and I'm also available online.

It’s terrifying 3:06 I do what I need to to get through my day .

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

I hope things start feeling better soon 🙏🏼

Sometimes waking up is my trigger :/

@Nina.Goradia

27 күн бұрын

It's a common one. You're not alone 🙏🏼

is this based on The Five Biological Laws of GNM?

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

No, I haven't heard of that. It's based on Polyvagal theory and Somatic Experiencing. The last part about somatics ego is based on my non-dual teacher Ryan's teachings and my direct experience with them.

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Just looked it up...I actually have heard of this, but haven't looked into it yet. Sounds interesting.

Tried it. It didn’t work

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

It may need facilitation by an SEP

Massage

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

Yep! I mention that in the Relax out of Freeze video.

Preparation for death

@Nina.Goradia

Ай бұрын

🙏🏼

You know, to the other Americans on here who are never thinking when they vote, my life has entailed me having to be my own therapist because my country does not, in any way, absolutely no, help me but they don’t think twice about funding genocide. Don’t vote the lesser of two evils just don’t vote. I would love to be able to see a therapist…that’ll never happen unless we are the change. No I’m not a troll I landed here randomly cause I don’t follow this channel. WERE THE CHANGE…so…

@Nina.Goradia

2 ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear therapy hasn't been accessible to you. What I offer isn't therapy, but it may be useful to you when I begin offering group classes in a few months through Patreon.