Dr Jenna Macciochi

And I kind of realized that I didn't...

talking about the nervous system as like fight or flight is what most people would be familiar with.

Like you're faced with danger, you're going to fight or you're going to run away and your nervous system is helping you be motivated to do one of those.

But there's other parts to that conversation that are less spoken about.

And I think they more apply to women, generally speaking, and that's freeze and fawn.

So if you can't fight because maybe you're smaller and you wouldn't win and you can't flight, you can't run away for whatever reason, you might freeze and you might try and appease the thing that is causing you danger.

And it's still a stress response.

You're just you're still bracing, you know, you're all of that stress chemistry still happening.

But it's

It's physically in your body.

I mentioned earlier, you know, dealing with back pain because I spent a lot of time in this freeze phone response, like everything bracing.

And I didn't even realize this was just how I went about my day.

My whole diaphragm not working properly, like breathing in my upper chest, like my heart rate elevated.

So I went to jujitsu and I was like, this is great.

You're learning technique.

It's all very like a calm, brilliant training partners.

You're learning how to do the technique in a very safe way.

Your partner is very passive so that you can understand the movements.

And then you have rounds of sparring at the end.

And I just completely froze like I like my body had forgotten everything.