Many learned to repress emotions or dissociate in order to survive when it wasn’t safe to feel emotions as a child.

Emotional repression may have helped us to survive as a child, but it doesn’t allow us to be fully alive and present as an adult. It keeps us from having deep connection with others.

To be fully alive, we have to be willing to come out of the freeze state and feel our emotions.

Here are some tips on how to do that:

1. Journal

2. Art therapy

3. Meditation and Deep breathing

4. Movement – Trauma release exercises

5. Inner child work

6. Reach out for support – work with someone who will validate you and help you transform negative core beliefs that were formed in childhood.