Your trauma response is
Avoidance
Trauma drives us into a survival response, either fight, flight or freeze. If your trauma goes untreated, your nervous system stays in the survival response until the trauma is dealt with and processed.
Avoidance is a Flight Response
Studies show when your nervous system is stuck in flight, you will experience mental and physical health challenges that get worse over time.
Trauma can be healed.
You can recover.
There is hope.
How do you know Avoidance is the main way your trauma shows up?
Let’s play “Tick the boxes!” Do you…
✅ Use food or alcohol to numb yourself
✅Hyperfocus on your work to avoid relationships
✅ Have a hard time knowing how you feel
✅ Arrive somewhere, not remembering the drive
✅ Worry that if people knew you they wouldn't like you
✅ Put the needs of others before your own well-being
✅ Have difficulty trusting others
...if you check even 3 of these boxes, then chances are your avoidance trauma response is holding you back from living with peace, and it might even be seriously damaging your relationships.
Resolve Your Avoidance Response to Trauma
Emerging research shows that trauma is best resolved with a multi-pronged approach. Specifically, rewiring the brain, resetting the nervous system, strengthening connections with others, and building your overall belief system is the approach that is most effective.
In order to resolve avoidance responses and feel better, Mending Trauma teaches you tools to get your nervous system out of the flight mode. When you move out of flight mode and into healthy coping mechanisms, you find relief from mental, physical and spiritual symptoms.