Trauma Responses: Understanding Your Patterns and Choosing a New Way

The Kelly Healing Project · Jul 17, 2025 · 31m

In this honest and personal episode, I’m opening up about something that shaped so much of my life without me even realizing it: trauma responses — specifically freeze.

For years, I lived in a freeze response. I didn’t always know that’s what it was — I just knew I felt stuck, numb, and disconnected. It became my default. But the more I healed, the more I realized that what once protected me was now holding me back.

And here’s the truth I learned the hard way: sometimes healing means doing the opposite of what your body wants to do.

For me, movement became medicine.

Action became the…