Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, the body’s built-in survival instinct. But that framework leaves out two ...

We all react to stress in deeply ingrained ways — fight, flight, freeze, or fawn — shaped by our nervous system, early life experiences, and even the environments we choose to navigate. These ...

For a long time, trauma responses were thought to be limited to just fight or flight. However, psychotherapist Pete Walker (2014) expanded this framework to include four primary trauma responses, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fight or flight are not the only common responses to a traumatic event. I addressed this a bit in a column published on November ...