Dr. Nicole LePera on Instagram: "I believe we have an epidemic of adults who are stuck within survival mode. Meaning, their trauma or chronic stress created dysregulation that the body couldn’t recover from. When this happens, we go into either: - a dissociation state (freeze state) - hypervigilant state (aware of every shift in mood, voice, scanning the environment for danger. Both of these states are survival adaptations. Dissociation keeps us safe from threats, it also blocks from con