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Navigate your empathy and sensitivity as well as life’s challenges and changes with compassion, grit and grace.

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How to use radical compassion to help yourself through a freeze state (or any difficult emotion or experience)

Some members of my community have been telling me that they’re in various states of freeze that they've been in for quite some time, or that they’re really challenged by going into a freeze response in certain situations such as being criticised by a loved one or having anger directed towards them.

So in this helpful article, I explain:

  • what a freeze state is

  • why you can get stuck in a freeze response

  • the typical approaches people react to a freeze and why they don’t work

  • how radical self-compassion can help yourself get out of a freeze state; and

  • I take you through Tara Brach’s RAIN process combined with somatic touch to help you through a freeze/shutdown response or any challenge you may be experiencing

  • BONUS audio recording of me taking you through the RAIN and somatic touch process for radical self-compassion

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