Healthy Employment Of The 4 F’s People who experience “good enough parenting” in childhood arrive in adulthood with a healthy and flexible response repertoire to danger. In the face of real danger, they have appropriate access to all of their 4F choices. Easy access to the fight response insures good boundaries, healthy assertiveness and aggressive self-protectiveness if necessary. Untraumatized people also easily and appropriately access their flight instinct and disengage and retreat when confrontation would exacerbate their danger. Untraumatized people also freeze appropriately and give up
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