#nonverbal expression

Freeze response: the intersection of autism, trauma and chronic illness

Peter Levine, psychologist and creator of Somatic Experiencing, has spent well over 25 years studying the immobility or freeze response to trauma. “It is one of the three primary responses available to reptiles and mammals when faced with an overwhelming threat. The other two, fight and flight, are much more familiar to most of us. Less is known about the immobility response” (from “Waking the…