Stuck Not Broken

Justin Sunseri

Stuck Not Broken is the first podcast built on clearly teaching the Polyvagal Theory and applying it to your trauma recovery process. Justin Sunseri is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist that makes the science of connection easily understood and accessible to anyone. He created the Polyvagal Trauma Relief System and is the author of Trauma & The Polyvagal Paradigm. (Justin Sunseri, LMFT99147)

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Stuck Not Broken

Episodes (360)

Today Why Being "Too Nice" Can Be a Survival Strategy
Tue Aug 11th Why Can't You Just Sit Still and Relax?
Tue Aug 4th The Play State: Polyvagal Theory

Stuck Not Broken

Aug 18, 2026
9 minutes
8 MB

Not every survival strategy looks like fighting back or running away. Sometimes it looks like befriending the person who's hurting you. This episode covers the last two mixed states: appease (safety plus flight/fight plus shutdown — all three primary states at once) and fawn (flight/fight plus shutdown, but without safety). What separates a hostage using social skills to stay alive from someone disappearing inside an abusive home. Why both states likely require significant dissociation to survive. And where I personally land on how much weight these two deserve as actual Polyvagal Theory mixed states, versus maybe so...

Stuck Not Broken

Why Being "Too Nice" Can Be a Survival Strategy

Justin Sunseri

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