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The Root Cause of Anxiety: Why Trauma Keeps You Stuck in Fight-or-Flight
Anxiety isn’t a random malfunction, even if your anxiety feels random. Anxiety is a highly intelligent survival response rooted in your brain and nervous system. Many people mistakenly think “calmness” is the solution to anxiety. They’ll say things like “just relax”, which of course, don’t help at all. When we understand that anxiety is your brain and body’s threat detection system sensing danger and trying to protect you, the solution becomes much clearer. It’s not calmness

Katie Potratz
5 min read


Why Anxiety Is a Protective Response (And Why Forcing Calm Doesn't Work)
Anxiety can be – at best – overwhelming and inconvenient, and, at wort, completely debilitating. It’s easy to label anxiety as the problem when it seems to cause us so much discomfort and pain. But one of the keys to healing anxiety is understanding what it really is. Anxiety is not a malfunction or something that’s trying to hurt you — anxiety is a protective response created by the subconscious and nervous system. I’ve been helping people heal from anxiety and a myriad of o

Katie Potratz
6 min read
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