Caroline Ng

Cries for Connection: What Israel's Wilderness Teaches Struggling Couples: Finding hope, trust and renewal in seasons of silence and heartbreak (This is a two-part series explores looks at covenant and vows - the foundation God set fo marriage and what happens when those promises are broken. This series is written for both churches and couples.

Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn? How Trauma Shapes our Survival Responses Have you ever wondered why you yell back when someone criticizes you, or why you shut down in silence during conflict? Trauma wires our brains and bodies in ways we don’t always understand. Psychologists have long described four common survival responses — Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn. They are automatic patterns the body uses to keep us alive in the face of danger. These aren’t signs of weaknesses.

What Trauma does to our Brain: When we hear the word trauma, most people think of something huge! Like an accident, casualty or war. But trauma isn’t always about major events. It’s about what happens inside our brain and body when we face something overwhelming and we have no safe way to cope. Have you ever wondered why you might: -Freeze and go blank during a conflict with your spouse? -React with anger at your child even though you promised yourself you wouldn’t?