Back Porch Confessions

The Flight Response: When Running Feels Safer Than Staying


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If you’ve ever avoided hard conversations, left relationships without closure, stayed busy to escape your emotions, or felt the urge to run when things get real—this episode is for you.

In this deep-dive episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara McCormick unpacks the flight trauma response—one of the four nervous system survival patterns (fight, flight, freeze, fawn). We explore how trauma, anxiety, abandonment wounds, and emotional overwhelm can wire us to escape instead of engage.

This episode is filled with real-life examples, healing strategies, self-awareness prompts, and interactive moments for listeners ready to stop running and start healing.

💛 You are not broken. You adapted.

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