Smell the flowers, blow out the candles, light your house on fire - Functional Freeze

If there's one thing millenials love doing, it's adding the word *functional* in front of scary words to make them less harsh. This week we're prepping for the inevitable marathon panic attack also known as the holiday season by learning about a cute little trauma response that we may or may not have adopted after years and years of being forced to work while experiencing global agony. I don't think this is what Darwin meant when he studied survival. The bar for the "fittest" is looking pretty low and pretty frozen these days. RESOURCES: https://youtu.be/-qPCzzn-uQA https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/articles/what-is-functional-freeze-and-how-can-you-soothe-it https://khironclinics.com/blog/functional-freeze-emotions-after-trauma/