Embracing the 4th F
Once You’ve Survived Fight, Flight, or Freeze
6 min readDec 30, 2019
Christmas was 72 hours ago and I haven’t stopped crying in days. Over the past decade, the month of December has snowballed from one traumatic event into another, resulting in a multitude of experiences producing the fight, flight, or freeze response. Exactly 8 years ago I was in the hospital for my daughter’s birth. It was an extremely complicated…