Freeze and shutdown, the most delicate and complex nervous system responses, take us into immobilisation and in a state of suppressed vitality.

Beneath them there are layers of hidden energy, and although inaccessible for now, it's waiting for the right conditions to emerge.

This is why freeze and shutdown require care that honours their intelligence while guiding toward gentle repair.

Just as freeze and shutdown protect us by pulling us inward, depression can sometimes serve a similar function. A form of depression can be a sign of an inner creative process—a deep restructuring of the psyche, guiding us through an experience of death and rebirth.

Painful yet significant, this kind of depression can serve as a threshold, a transition into something new. But without the right understanding, we can become stuck here, unable to move toward renewal.

This workshop is for you if:

You feel as if life is happening around you, but you're not fully in it. You might struggle to feel joy, motivation, or a sense of direction, caught in a cycle of exhaustion, procrastination, or isolation.

You may experience:

• A constant sense of heaviness—like moving through life with an invisible weight on your body.
• Mental fog and fatigue that make even simple tasks feel overwhelming.
• Struggles with motivation—you want to move forward, but something in you feels frozen.
• A tendency to withdraw from social interactions, even though part of you longs for connection.
• Difficulty accessing anger or healthy aggression, leading to passivity or suppressed frustration.
• A deep, unresolved sense of shame, as if something is inherently wrong with you.
• Feeling invisible or unseen, as if your presence doesn’t really matter.
• A longing for vitality and aliveness, but not knowing how to access it.

You want to:

• Reconnect with your body’s energy and inner power instead of feeling numb or drained.
• Understand why you feel this way—not as a personal failing, but as a nervous system and psyche response.

• Learn tools to gently shift out of freeze and shutdown without overwhelming yourself.

• Find meaning within your experience of depression, seeing it as part of a larger process.

• Move from passive survival to a felt sense of agency, creativity, and vitality.

If this resonates, this workshop will offer you the tools, insights, and guidance to navigate freeze, shutdown, and depression in a way that honours your system while gently inviting transformation.