It is trauma-based,
fear-driven, conditioned.
A coping mechanism
living inside our authentic being:
Fight, flee, freeze, fawn, friend.
The body’s intelligent, automatic response
to a perceived life threat
that never got completed or discharged.
It formed
when we left the body
in one sudden, energetic moment.
Blind innocence called it separation
from love,
from resonance,
from connection,
from security,
from safety.
That misinterpretation stuck.
It became guilt.
It became shame.
And guilt and shame
became the wall
keeping authenticity
from coming home.
To survive,
our authentic being
identified with the pattern itself.
It used fight, flee, freeze, fawn, friend
on itself,
on others,
trying to reconcile
the very thing that now rules the body.
So it whispered:
I am this coping mechanism.
**This is the contradiction
that perpetuates itself.**
The only way to put it to rest
is to stop acting it out.
And if the fear is too great to stop,
then be alone for a while.
Return.
Reunite with the body.
Break the spell
that started the whole cycle.
Come home.
Nina’s Nuances 