Is Numbness protection or prison?
Frozen Heart-Ask Liza Express Answers
Numbness begins as protection and becomes a prison only when it overstays its purpose. It protects you by shielding your heart from overwhelming emotions, painful memories, and relational risk. In the early stages of trauma, this protection is crucial. It allows you to survive what your mind cannot process.
But when the danger has passed and the numbness remains, the protection becomes confinement. It blocks joy, connection, intimacy, spirituality, and selfawareness. It keeps harm out—but it also keeps healing out.
The prison isn’t the numbness itself; it’s the belief that numbness is the only safe way to exist. That belief was true in the past, but it isn’t true now. You’ve grown. You’re stronger. You have language, tools, and insight your younger self never had.
The shift happens when you begin treating numbness as information, not identity. It’s your nervous system telling you, “I’m overwhelmed.” When you build safety, emotional literacy, and relational trust, the numbness slowly melts.
You don’t break out of the prison—you outgrow it. And when you do, your heart begins to thaw.
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