From Freeze to Feeling: A Movement Journey

“What if your ‘depression’ isn’t depression at all… but your nervous system stuck in Freeze?”“A teen

came to me saying they felt numb, disconnected, and empty. Everyone kept naming

it ‘depression.’ But when we really looked—no joy, no motivation, no emotion—it wasn’t

a mood issue… it was a Freeze response.”“In the Freeze $\to$ Flee $\to$ Fight triangle,

Freeze is the lowest state of the lower self.It shuts down sensation so you can survive.”“When

I asked what they used to love, they said, ‘Dancing.’So we brought in movement—slow

at first.Feet, then hips, then breath.As they moved, their body thawed.

Sensation returned.”“The shift wasn’t about fixing their mind.When you move, you come back online.Sometimes