Fear Response Physiology and Holding Space for Fear: Janet Redmond and Christine Ploschenz (Fear Series, Part 1)
This episode is the first in a series on Fear (Fear, Magic and Women, collected by Millicent Haughey).
It goes deep very quickly, so be ready to listen at your own pace, move your body before playing the recording, pause it often and take plenty of notes. To get the most out of this episode, we recommend you find your own way to ground yourself first, in the here and now in your physical body.
“If I take someone into their danger zone before they know their survival mechanism, integration does not happen” - Janet Redmond.
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Christine Ploschenz works closely with people, to guide them to be in their bodies, through movement. She uses tools and distinctions from Possibility Management as well as somatic and embodiment practices.
Janet Redmond has over 30 years experience as a counsellor, therapist, and transactional analyst. She holds regular Building Communication Bridges workshops where people get to practice and experience deeper levels of communication with themselves and others. She combines her years of experience with the tools and distinctions of Possibility Management to create healing and real change for people from all walks of life.
Julia Neumann is a coach, Edgecaster, aliveness researcher, writer and visionary. She holds regular spaces that you can join to discover new levels of aliveness through conscious use of your Feelings. She passionately takes a stand for Women becoming Radically Alive.
In this interview Christine, Janet and Julia go into the terrain of fear to discuss a fundamental part of being human: How does the human system deal with fear on a biological and neurological level? And how can having an awareness of the ways the human body stores traumatic events help you navigate your own fear response as well as meet people exactly where they are?
This episode is valuable for anyone who is learning to have a different relationship with their fear in their body, and will be also of interest to spaceholders for Emotional Healing Process especially around emotional fear (unprocessed events, still caught in the nervous system).
The importance of mirroring.
Fight, fright, freeze, flag, fragment in fear response.
Adult, part and child ego states.
Signs of Dissociation, overwhelm, flooding of the nervous system.
Social engagement - when it is healing and when it is traumatic.
Holding space for someone to discover their survival mechanism, before going into their ‘danger zone.
Moving into connection.The Map of Numbness Bar with Physiological Fear Response
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Clinton Callahan, Building Love that Lasts: https://bookshop.org/p/books/building-love-that-lasts-secrets-for-creating-an-extraordinary-life-and-profound-intimacy-with-your-partner-clinton-callahan/13715834
https://numbnessbar.mystrikingly.com/
Janet Redmond's Youtube channel:
https://youtube.com/@janetredmondtomb?si=AagO-0TcF7IIxGJ6
www.christineploschenz.org
www.possibilitymanagement.org
www.radicallyalivewomen.com
This episode was edited and written up by Millicent Haughey.