11/23/2025
🌿 DBT Skills Training This Week 🌿
At The DBT Center for Trauma & Healing, we’re diving into two powerful foundations for understanding our nervous system:
🧠 Fight, Flight, Freeze & Fawn
These are our body’s automatic survival responses.
They aren’t “good” or “bad”—they’re simply your nervous system doing its best to protect you.
✨ Fight – standing up, pushing back, taking action
✨ Flight – pulling away, escaping, avoiding
✨ Freeze – shutting down, feeling stuck or numb
✨ Fawn – people-pleasing, over-accommodating to stay safe
Learning to recognize these patterns helps us respond with more choice instead of automatic reaction.
🌈 The Window of Tolerance
Think of it like your emotional “comfort zone.”
Inside the window, you feel grounded and regulated.
Outside the window, your body may swing into overwhelm (hyperarousal) or shut-down (hypoarousal).
DBT skills help widen that window so you can move through life with more steadiness, clarity, and self-compassion.
💬 This week’s classes will explore:
✔️ how trauma influences our nervous system
✔️ how to spot when you’ve left your window of tolerance
✔️ practical DBT skills to bring you back into balance
✔️ how to build awareness—not judgment—around your responses
If you’re curious about why you react the way you do… or you’re ready to understand your nervous system in a kinder, more empowered way… this week’s session is for you. 💛
✨ Join us to learn, connect, and heal—one skill at a time. ✨
