The Body Knows - Episode - Nineteen - Dissociation as Survival

The Body Knows - Episode - Nineteen - Dissociation as Survival

Why does the body sometimes shut down instead of fighting?

In this episode, we explore dissociation, not as weakness, but as the body’s most intelligent survival strategy.

We’ll uncover:

🧠 How dissociation works in the brain and nervous system, depersonalisation, derealisation, and the shutdown reflex.

💔 The costs of dissociation: authenticity, intimacy, creativity, and memory.

🌪 A real-life scenario of projection, and how grounding transformed the pull to drift into a choice for presence.

🌱 Somatic tools to anchor the body in the here-and-now.

✨ Philosophical, spiritual, and Indigenous perspectives on presence as the path home.

Dissociation was once necessary, but it is not destiny. Healing begins when we honour its role, and then choose presence, breath by breath.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 19: Dissociation as Survival.

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