
How does your nervous system respond to stress and threat? Discover your trauma response type — Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn — based on polyvagal and C-PTSD research.
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Walter Cannon (1915)
Fight-or-Flight Response — the founding theory of stress neuroscience
Peter Levine
Somatic Experiencing — the freeze response and somatic trauma
Pete Walker (2013)
C-PTSD — defined "fawn" as the fourth survival response
Stephen Porges
Polyvagal Theory — the biological basis of the nervous system survival responses