Episode 68: Stress Responses: Flight

When you're facing overwhelming situations during a cancer journey, the flight response shows up in ways that might surprise you. It's not always about physically running away—sometimes it's that internal "no" when your doctor is delivering difficult news, or the complete denial that kicks in during diagnosis.In this episode, we continue our stress response series by exploring what flight actually feels like, why it happens, and how to work with that urge to step away instead of judging yourself for having it.Flight can feel like relief in the moment—there's this sense of "I don't need to know, this isn't mine to handle." But the challenge comes when stepping back becomes permanent avoidance. The key is learning to use that space to gather yourself and then come back to engage more consciously.