What happens when the people who were supposed to protect you become the reason you struggle to trust?

In this episode of Out of Freeze, Christopher Allcorn explores the lasting impact trauma and betrayal can have on our ability to trust others, trust ourselves, and feel safe in relationships.

From questioning your own instincts to building emotional walls, this conversation examines how survival responses that once protected us can later keep us from the connection we long for. Christopher also shares what rebuilding trust has looked like in his own life through therapy, boundaries, self-compassion, and the courage to take tiny steps toward healing.

This episode is a reminder that trust doesn't have to be given all at once. It can be rebuilt slowly, intentionally, and one relationship at a time.

Because the opposite of freeze is flow.

What happens when the people who caused the wounds aren't the ones responsible for healing them?

In this deeply personal episode of Out of Freeze, Christopher Allcorn reflects on childhood trauma, survival, shame, grief, and the difficult reality of rebuilding a life after experiences he never chose.

Through stories of therapy, caregiving, freeze responses, anxiety, healing, and creating Out of Freeze, Christopher explores what it means to live forward after harm—not by pretending the past didn't happen, but by refusing to let it have the final word.

This conversation is about the difference between fault and responsibility, the grief of carrying wounds you didn't create, and the courage it takes to keep moving one tiny step at a time.

If you've ever felt exhausted by healing, overwhelmed by your past, or angry that you're the one doing the work, this episode is for you.

Because the opposite of freeze is flow.

In one of the most personal episodes of Out of Freeze, Christopher Allcorn shares a deeper chapter of the story that shaped his life.

Through reflections on childhood, trust, confusion, shame, silence, and survival, Christopher explores what it means to lose a sense of safety at a young age and the lasting impact that experience can have on a person's nervous system, identity, relationships, and view of the world.

Rather than focusing on graphic details, this episode examines the emotional reality of childhood trauma—the questions, the loneliness, the self-blame, and the years spent trying to understand wounds that were never supposed to exist.

This conversation is about the little boy who deserved protection, the adult who spent years searching for answers, and the healing that begins when shame is replaced with compassion.

If you've ever blamed yourself for what happened to you, struggled to understand your survival responses, or wondered why old wounds still affect you today, this episode is for you.

Because the opposite of freeze is flow.