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The Anxiety Response

5 minEndureFree episodeCBT
The Anxiety Response
Anxiety Skills
5 MINThe Anxiety Response
What you'll learn
  • →Understand the four anxiety responses: fight, flight, freeze, fawn — and recognize which one is your default.
  • →See anxiety not as malfunction but as a survival system doing its job too well.
  • →Stop trying to feel less anxious and start trying to work with the system you have.
Proof task

Don't just watch. Do.

Think back to the last time you were really anxious. Which of the four did your body do — fight (anger, irritability), flight (escape, avoidance), freeze (paralysis, blank mind), or fawn (people-pleasing, agreeing)? Name it. Knowing your default is half the battle.

Chapters

Jump to a moment.

  • 0:00The hook
  • 1:15The pattern
  • 2:45The interrupt
  • 4:30Practice scenario
  • 5:30The proof task
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Keep going.

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4-7-8 breathing. Box breathing. Not meditation — functional respiration that changes your nervous system state in 90 seconds.
Episode 3 · 5 min
Grounding Techniques
5-4-3-2-1. Cold water. Feet on the floor. The toolkit for pulling yourself back into the present when your mind has left.
Reflect

“If your anxiety is a survival system, what is it trying to protect you from — and is the protection still serving you?”

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