July 27, 2025
When Compliance Is Not Consent: How Freeze-Based Trauma Undermines Our Agency And Will
Tags: Freeze, Trauma therapy, Psychadelic therapy, Andean Mysticism, Consciosness, Choice, Neuroplasticity, energy medicine
Emerging from the architecture of freeze—into the light of will, choice, and consent.
A Thief in Sheep’s Clothing
It has been said that trauma is a thief. The events themselves may have been horrific, but with freeze-based trauma, the worst of it often still lies ahead.
As children, we are usually outmatched by our aggressors. While the default stress responses are to flee or fight, neither is usually an option when we are small and dependent upon our abusers for survival. Children facing violence, abuse, or violations of their boundaries—and their bodies—have but one option: to survive it. A third stress response takes over: freeze.
When the nervous system chooses freeze, it does so by overriding our will. No one wants to freeze. It’s a form of paralysis. Without will, our agency, or ability to act according to our will, collapses. Now we are at the whims of our aggressors. To make matters worse, if this happens more than once our brain rewires itself to use freeze as the default stress response in the future. We are not making choices anymore in freeze. We are surviving them. What happens in the aftermath often causes far more harm than the event itself...
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February 08, 2024
Podcast with Jason Grechanik of The Universe Within
Tags: Shamanism, Intitations, the call to shamanism, Shamanism and Physics, inititations and neuroscience, The Q'ero tradidion, Dark Energies, choice, Andean mysticism, Psychadelics, Psychadelic Therapy, podcast, Juan Nuñez Del Prado, Joan Parisi Wilcox, Trauma
Podcast: Jason Grechanik of the Universe Within interviews Christina Allen
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July 01, 2015
Romanticizing the Victim
Tags: Depresion, Helplessness, Vicitim, Self empowerment, choice
Within each of us lives the potential to feel helpless and powerless as we navigate a world where our safety seems tenuous at best. Events are forever out of our control. Our foods are sprayed with pesticides and infused with hormones, unscrupulous people hide in the anonymity of an over populated world, stealing our identities and scamming money out of our elders. Dangerous pedophiles stalk our children. It is easy to see ourselves as victims. In fact, the Victim archetype is an integral part of the cultural paradigm we all have been taught to unconsciously construct our worlds around.
The seeds for this thinking start early. Most of us were raised on old stories of Heroes and Villains. We have Superman, Prince Charming and the X-Men all coming to save the day; we have the Wicked Witch, Evil Stepmother, and the Joker trying to destroy some form of our innocence. Implicit within each of these stories is a Victim that needs to be saved. They have been tied to train tracks, locked in stone towers, and fed poisoned apples. As we grow into adults we hear these stories morph into victims of crime, natural disasters, and disease. In a very reflexive way we romanticize the victim, we feel sorry for it and want to save it from its pain.
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