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For people who experienced ongoing trauma during childhood, being confronted with the impact of someone’s mistakes (even when that person recognizes the error and wants to repair) can trigger the fight response.

There is information in that response. It signals there are unmet needs that are essential. Those things definitely need to be addressed but the most important thing is your well-being, and that internal response is so extreme that experiencing it over and over again can literally make people sick.

If you find yourself in a situation like this, try remembering before addressing anything that you are deserving of well-being and health.

What would help your body come down from that response? A walk? Exercise? Angry journaling? A crying session? Allowing yourself some time to process and release the emotions is more important than any problem solving you want to do. In fact, and no surprise here, we are better at reasoning when we are regulated, or not feeling under threat.

Once you feel like you are no longer in fight mode, you can figure out your next step.

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