Thawing the Freeze with Juliette Viger

00:00 Welcome & Introducing the New Podcast Season 01:05 Why "Thawing the Freeze" Matters 01:17 Grounding Breath & Body Awareness Practice 04:20 Meet Juliette Viger & Her Background 06:10 Burnout, Chronic Pain & Disconnection From the Body 09:00 What Is the Freeze Response? 13:30 How Trauma Creates Numbing & Protection 18:00 The Difference Between Thinking and Feeling 22:00 Juliette's Personal Journey Through Freeze & Burnout 25:15 Numbing, Overthinking & High Functioning Survival Patterns 27:45 Chronic Pain as a Wake-Up Call 30:00 Why We Avoid Feeling & The Importance of Resourcing 34:00 Capacity, Safety & Working With the Nervous System 38:30 The Intelligence Behind Freeze & Protection 41:20 Client Story: Pain, Fear & Learning to Feel Again 45:30 Revisiting Fight, Flight & Freeze During Healing 46:00 Feeling Instead of Creating Stories About Feelings 48:15 The Power of Staying Present With Discomfort 50:15 What If Your Next Transformation Is Staying? 54:00 Ease, Embodiment & Allowing Change 58:00 Audience Questions & Final Reflections 01:02:15 End In this powerful conversation, Elisabeth sits down with bodywork practitioner and trauma-informed de-armoring facilitator Juliette Viger to explore the process of thawing the freeze response and reconnecting with the body. Together they discuss how chronic stress, trauma, burnout, overthinking, and emotional suppression can create patterns of numbness and disconnectio and how body-based work helps us regain access to feeling, aliveness and trust. Connect with Juliette: https://www.julietteviger.com/ Connect with Elisabeth: www.elisabethfinocchiaro.com