Are you so sensitive that you feel like you need to protect yourself from toxic people or otherwise have your feelings accommodated in order to experience connection?

The freeze defense mechanism has horribly detrimental, but also very silent, effects on the body, our health, and the way we interpret our experience of the world around us, and spanking contributes to that.

Your capacity to change your attitude and the way you speak is a purely intellectual process. However, until fundamental real-time feedback and profound somatic awareness-oriented change takes place, the core driver for the autonomic response remains unchanged.