481 - The Real Reason You Snap, Shut Down, or Cave in Conflict

Picture the last real conflict you were in. Chest tight, face hot, some part of you already gone. Did you snap? Shut down? Cave and agree to something you didn't mean? Whatever you did, it probably wasn't how you'd have told a friend to handle it. Some other version of you took the wheel. Here's the real reason: that version isn't a character flaw. She's a pattern, and she has a signature move the second things get tense. This week I break down what happens in your body in the first two secon...