Understand

Understand ~ Track ~Regulate ~ Reframe ~ Integrate ~ Resilience ~Maintenance  

Session 1 – Understanding Your Response

Goal: Introduce the Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn/Flop model.

Opening grounding (5 min): Gentle breathing or body stretch.

Education (15 min): Explain each response with examples.

“Our bodies protect us in five main ways. None are wrong; they’re all ways to survive.”

Self-identification exercise (10 min):

• “Which one feels most familiar to you?”

• “Can you think of a time when this helped you?”

Reflection journaling (10 min): Write or share: How does your survival pattern show up today?

Closing grounding (5 min): Hand on heart, slow breathing. Affirmation: “I am safe in this moment.”