# fight flight (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover fight flight. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Closer Look at the Trauma Responses Part 3: The Freeze Response](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/a-closer-look-at-the-trauma-responses-242) _2026-08-03 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ Part 3 of a 4-part series on the body's survival responses: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. ## [A Closer Look at the Trauma Responses Part 2 : The Flight Response](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/a-closer-look-at-the-trauma-responses-ef2) _2026-07-27 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ Part 2 of a 4-part series on the body's survival responses: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. ## [A Closer Look at the Trauma Responses Part 1 : The Fight Response](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/a-closer-look-at-the-trauma-responses) _2026-07-20 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ Part 1 of a 4-part series on the body’s survival responses: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. ## [What "Expanding Your Window of Tolerance" Actually Looks Like](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/what-expanding-your-window-of-tolerance) _2026-07-13 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ What the process of actually widening it looks like, and why pushing harder usually backfires ## [Exposure Therapy Has a Blind Spot for Trauma Survivors](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/exposure-therapy-has-a-blind-spot) _2026-07-06 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ What the "sit with discomfort" advice misses for trauma survivors, and how to know when to lean in vs. step back ## [Why You Can Understand Your Trauma and Still Feel Stuck](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/why-you-can-understand-your-trauma) _2026-06-29 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ The gap between insight and healing, and what your nervous system needs that talk therapy can't always give it ## [Everything You Know About Self-Care Is Wrong](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/everything-you-know-about-self-care-a19) _2026-06-22 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ Why the "fill your cup" advice is missing the point, and what to do instead ## [Bracing For the Other Shoe to Drop After Something Good Happens Is a Trauma Response](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/bracing-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-cc5) _2026-06-16 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ Why feeling good can feel incredibly vulnerable ## [Fandom Might Actually Be it's Own Form of Therapy](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/fandom-might-actually-be-its-own) _2026-06-08 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ On collective joy, nervous system regulation, and why we’re all starving for more of this ## [What If Your Nightmares Are Trying to Help You?](https://mytherapist.substack.com/p/what-if-your-nightmares-are-trying) _2026-06-01 · Your Trauma Therapist · Your Trauma Therapist_ The science behind flashbacks, and why avoidance makes them worse ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZLC4PB6nGSkk) _2026-06-01 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [A Tale of Two NICUs @ New York Times & Haaretz](https://mushon.com/blog/2025/08/04/a-tale-of-two-nicus-nytimes/) _2025-08-04 · Mushon · Mushon.com_ The New York Times just published a very personal essay I wrote. After seeing a video from Gaza of Dr. Ali Alhaj Salem, standing over incubators without electricity, without formula, without breast milk, I’ve thought a lot about NICUs, how they differ, and how they reflect on humanity. Fourteen years ago, my son was born ## [Stuck Between Fight, Flight, and Freeze](https://mushon.com/blog/2025/07/20/stuck-between-fight-flight-and-freeze/) _2025-07-20 · Mushon · Mushon.com_ I just published a piece I’ve been struggling to write for months:Unlearning Helplessness: Violence and the Collapse of Political Imagination It comes from a place of deep frustration—with the violence, with the paralysis, with how easy it’s become to accept the unacceptable. We’re stuck in survival mode. Fight, flight, freeze. Again and again. This isn’t ## [Launching: MapFutur.es — a map of Future Screenshots](https://mushon.com/blog/2025/06/29/launching-mapfutur-es-a-map-of-future-screenshots/) _2025-06-29 · Mushon · Mushon.com_ MapFutur.es is an online map that gathers fragments of imagined futures: “future screenshots”—speculative visions shaped as tweets, chats, maps, protest signs, or headlines. They’re not predictions. They’re provocations. They ask: what might still be possible? What futures are already taking shape in how we grieve, resist, and imagine? The Futures Map is nonlinear. It’s organized ## [Imagining Futures: The Power of Futures Thinking in Uncertain Times @ The Joods Museum, Amsterdam](https://mushon.com/blog/2025/06/19/imagining-futures/) _2025-06-19 · Mushon · Mushon.com_ Visit the exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam from 19 June 2005—11 January 2026 The installation Imagining Futures. The power of futures thinking in uncertain times explores how people, in times of crisis, can and dare to imagine different futures and what that can mean for them. The installation presents several people who live in the ## [On Future Screenshots and Political Imagination \[article\]](https://mushon.com/blog/2024/11/25/on-future-screenshots-and-political-imagination-article/) _2024-11-25 · Mushon · Mushon.com_ In the aftermath of October 7th, the future between the river and the sea has felt increasingly illegible—narrowed by grief, fear, and polarized certainties. Future Screenshots is a response to that closing horizon. It’s an invitation to imagine again. The project collects speculative glimpses into possible futures—captured as if from social media, protest signs, maps,