Petra’s Reviews > The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > Status Update

- Mindfulness decreases amygdala activation = decreased reactivity to potential triggers
- Observe association of physical feelings to emotions
- The best ways to survive engrained patterns of submission is to restore physical capacity to engage and defend
- Model mugging program helped women recondition the freeze response into positive fighting energy

- Learned helplessness - staying stuck in the fear they know - impacts the fight or flight response and inability to take action
- Scared animals return home regardless of how safe home is
- Alexithymia, or "emotional blindness," is a personality trait characterized by significant difficulty identifying, processing, describing, and interpreting one's own emotions, as well as recognizing emotions in others