Defrosting the Freeze (SOMATIC exercises for the Numb)

Combative Calm

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If you’ve been feeling like a human iPhone stuck on 1%, welcome to the freeze response — the least sexy survival state in the nervous-system lineup.

This episode breaks down what’s actually happening when your body taps out:
We go full nerd on the dorsal vagal system, the HPA axis, and the neurochemistry that makes you feel like a ghost in your own skin.

Then we move — slowly, gently — through six science-backed somatic resets to help you thaw without forcing anything:
eye-tracking, micro-movements, temperature contrast, humming, and soft pressure techniques that whisper safety back into your body.

No toxic positivity. No “just get up and move.”
Just real neuroscience, explained in human language, with zero shame and a few well-placed F-bombs.

By the end, you’ll understand why freeze happens, how to tell when you’re in it, and what to actually do when your nervous system goes full opossum mode.
You’ll walk away with tools to reconnect to your body — one millimeter, one hum, one breath at a time.

Listen if:

You’ve been “numb but exhausted” for months.
You keep calling it burnout, but it feels more like vanishing.
You want to know what’s going on in your brain when everything just... stops.

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