Perfectly Broken

Understanding Your Stress Responses - How Your Nervous System Shapes Relationships


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Hey there! In this episode, we dive into nervous system regulation and how our stress responses impact our ability to be vulnerable in relationships. This is just a glimpse of what we explore in Soulfully Seen, where we go deeper into healing patterns and rewiring the nervous system for authentic connections.


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What you’ll hear:

  • The Nervous System: Understanding the sympathetic (fight/flight) and parasympathetic (rest/digest) responses.
  • Stress Responses: We each have a dominant fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response when faced with stress.

    Fight: Reacting defensively, controlling situations, picking fights.

    Flight: Avoidance, overworking, perfectionism, staying busy to escape emotions.

    Freeze:Feeling numb, shutting down, dissociating, ghosting difficult situations.

    Fawn:People-pleasing, shapeshifting to be accepted, losing oneself in relationships.

  • Origins of Stress Responses: These patterns develop in childhood as survival mechanisms.
  • Rewiring the Nervous System: Learning to shift from reaction to response through regulation techniques.
  • Somatic Practices for Regulation: Box breathing, movement, shaking, self-soothing, and EFT tapping help reset the nervous system.


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Perfectly BrokenBy Dani Stedman