![]() “Schools also tend to minimize powerful healing and resilience-building activities like sports, music, and art. What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing When that happens, we feel dysregulated, even threatened.” But when we encounter people with attributes that are different from “our people,” the brain’s default is to activate the stress response. Our stress response has evolved to be relationally sensitive, such that when we’re with people who have attributes similar to our childhood “clan,” we feel safe. Now add to this the fact that the major predator of humans has always been other humans. Better to be safe than sorry-better to assume that novelty can be a potential threat. And when the brain encounters any unfamiliar experience, its default move is to activate the stress response. Now remember that your brain is always monitoring your world-both inside and outside-to ensure your survival. And we’ve talked about how we’re deeply relational creatures whose developing brains-starting with the lowest areas-begin to make “memories” of the smells, sounds, and images of “our people.” These memories exist on a very deep, pre-cortical, unconscious level: the way your people talk, the way they dress, the color of their skin. “We have talked about how an infant’s brain takes in sensory information to make sense of their world and build associations. ![]()
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