The Most Overlooked Form of Functional Freeze... The Over-Functioning Fixer
Because sometimes trauma looks like a to-do list. (New video!)
When you hear the term “functional freeze,” what do you picture?
For most people, it’s collapse. Shutdown. Total inertia.
But what if I told you that sometimes freeze doesn’t look like doing nothing at all…
…it looks like doing everything.
Fixing, helping, achieving, organizing—while quietly disconnecting from your own needs.
This is The Over-Functioning Fixer.
And in my newest video, I’m unpacking this most misunderstood form of functional freeze—one that’s often praised, rewarded, and deeply exhausting.
WATCH NOW: The Over-Functioning Fixer: The Most Overlooked Form of Functional Freeze
You’ll learn:
Why hyper-productivity can actually be a nervous system in freeze
The childhood roots that hardwire us to equate love with usefulness
Why rest feels guilt-inducing (and what to do about it)
This is Part 2 of my series The Many Faces of Functional Freeze. If you missed Part 1 (The Stuck & Shame-Filled Overthinker), you can catch that here
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This 6-week somatic breathwork course is specifically designed to help unfreeze your nervous system from exactly this kind of high-functioning survival mode.
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With breath,
Andrea 🤍