Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn — Know Your Default Stress Response
Your nervous system has a default stress strategy. Knowing which one is yours lets you start choosing differently.
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Emotions are signals, not orders. Anger, fear, envy, and joy each carry information about what matters to you — the skill is reading the signal without being run by it. Practical advice on naming feelings, riding out emotional waves, and responding instead of reacting.
Your nervous system has a default stress strategy. Knowing which one is yours lets you start choosing differently.
Crying is a nervous-system release, and fighting it usually makes it last longer — interrupt it with cold and slow exhales if you must function now, then let it finish, rehydrate and rest.