Rosanne Marmor, LCSW

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Humans are incredible learners. 🧑🏼‍🎓

The younger we are, the stickier our experiences.

If a small child touches the stove and burns themself, they will learn not to touch the stove again.

As they age, they may have a fear of being burned and not remember why. The experience stayed, but the details of the memory are filed away in the brain. 🤔

When humans have traumatic experiences, they stay with us. Flight, fight, and freeze become accessible with super speed because they save us from danger at our most base level.

The brain is thematic. If this…then that goes the thinking brain.

While this isn’t true, we can’t distinguish between truth in our brain from past trauma and the reality of a situation in the present. 🧠

If I burned myself on the stove and then I see my child near the stove 30 years later, I might have a fear reaction that looks like flight or fight. 😳

This trauma response is so ingrained in our DNA it can be hard to retrain ourselves to slow down and think logically about our reactions.

It takes time, so have compassion for yourself!