About this episode
This episode explores the freeze response in men, its implications, and how to address it.
In this episode I talk about freeze, the response in men that hides in plain sight. Fight gets respect. Flight at least looks like movement. Freeze just looks like you vanished, and most of the time nobody even clocks it, including you. Plus on top of that a lot of men get praised for being steady when what's actually happening inside them is immobilization. I've lived inside this one for most of my life, in the conversations that mattered, the choices I couldn't make, the moments I needed to show up and couldn't find my way there. In this one I get into what's actually happening in your body when you freeze up, why the pattern runs so deep, how to head it off at the pass when possible, and what happens when you do really freeze and can't get yourself out of it. Curious which of the 9 masculine archetypes you embody? Take the free assessment at quiz.evolutionary.men.
Topics covered
- freeze response
- masculine archetypes
- emotional immobilization
- self-awareness
Keywords
- emotional response
- men's health
- psychology
- self-improvement
Mentioned in this episode
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