Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn - Why You Keep Reacting Like a Scared Child
About this episode
Kenny Weiss explores the four trauma responses of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, explaining their origins in childhood and their impact on adult behavior.
Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn are not bad habits, not personality flaws, and not things you can think your way out of. They are childhood survival states still running in your adult nervous system, and every productivity hack and coping skill has failed you because the body is not broken, the body is overheated. If you have ever snapped at someone over nothing, said yes when you meant no, gone blank during conflict, or run to the laptop to outwork a feeling, this video maps the exact mechanism underneath and gives you a specific intervention for each of the four states. Kenny Weiss is a relationship, communication, and childhood trauma recovery specialist. He teaches the Worst Day Cycle™, the Authentic Self Cycle™, and the Emotional Authenticity Method™. He goes where every nervous-system teacher stops: tying each of the four trauma responses to a specific survival persona and giving the exact EAM intervention for each one. Trauma turns the nervous system into a time machine. The trigger lands in the present, and the body sends you back to the moment the response was first installed. Fight is the falsely empowered survival persona protecting a child who was not protected…
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