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The Fawn Response – When Pleasing Others Becomes Survival (Trauma Responses, Part 4)

By Debra Cohen-Melamed, LCSW, CCTP, TF-CBT, CPDTP In Part 1, we explored how the Fight response turns fear into control. In Part 2, we saw how Flight becomes motion as a way to escape emotional overwhelm. And in Part 3, we looked at how Freeze shuts the body down when nothing else feels possible. But […]

The Freeze Response – When Numbness Becomes a Way of Life (Trauma Responses, Part 3)

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A 4-Part Blog Series by Debra Cohen-Melamed, LCSW, CCTP, TF-CBT, CPDTP In Part 1, we explored how the Fight response turns fear into control. In Part 2, we unpacked how Flight keeps us moving to escape overwhelming emotions. But not all trauma responses are active. Some are invisible—misread as apathy, laziness, or indifference. As a

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