Unshaming the Freeze Response with Rachel Rae Halder

Free Your Soma with Aimee Takaya

Have you ever experienced freeze, where your body goes to a complete shutdown? Freeze dynamics can show up in various areas of life, such as sexuality, relationships, work, and organization. Today, I’m excited to host Rachel Rae Halder. She explains how the freeze response is often misunderstood, the nuances of the freeze response, its impact on various aspects of life, and the importance of approaching it with understanding and self-compassion. In this podcast episode, Rachel takes us through: - How freeze is common and how it’s often misunderstood. - What freeze is, and how it occurs. - Freeze in different life areas. - How understanding freeze dynamics brings compassion to areas of struggle and stuckness. - Thawing freeze through micro-movements - How seeking stability, safety, and self-trust in the body and environment supports the nervous system in emerging from a shutdown. - How to work with chronic freeze patterns. - Consciously working through ancestral healing of freeze patterns. - Her upcoming 8-week course “Finding Flow” and other offerings for Nervous System Education. And so much more! Rachel Halder is a neurodivergent and queer writer, thought leader, and seasoned practitioner with over a decade of experience in post-traumatic growth healing arts, with some of the most advanced trainings around trauma resolution, sexual liberation, and collective healing. She has a unique, mystical, ancestral, and energetic approach to trauma healing + pleasure, especially in understanding nuances in the nervous system, including many freeze dynamics that play out in people’s bodies. Her work goes far beyond the typical somatic experiencing principles and enters into nature, plus the energetic and mystical realms of the “unseen.” Links: https://rachelhalder.podia.com/finding-flow https://rachelhalder.podia.com/why-we-freeze www.facebook.com/raehalder www.instagram.com/rachel.rae.halder www.raehalder.com Follow Aimee Takaya on: IG : @aimeetakaya Facebook : Aimee Takaya Learn more about Aimee Takaya, Hanna Somatic Education, and The Radiance Program at www.freeyoursoma.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aimee322/support