Fight or Flight?

I recently started thinking more and more into the humans "fight or flight" response system. If you're not sure what this is, fight or flight is a psychological response to a traumatic event. Example: When the doorbell rings I go into a panic attack thinking it's someone bad i.e. detectives or DCPP. Why? because less than a year ago not only did they kidnap my step daughter but they also sent detectives to my house two days later at 7:30 am to try and get me to fess up to what they assumed I did. My fight or flight response automatically kicks in even if it's the pizza man! What makes our bodies want to go into this fight or flight mode? How does our brain choose fight or flight? To be honest here I never really had to experience the fight or flight response. My life was always genuinely easy, no arrest record, no jail time, a few speeding tickets. It wasn't until they ripped my step daughter out of my home and all of a sudden I was in "mama bear mode". I never had the flight response, not once did I ever want to give up on her and walk away. Never. I was her mom, I was the one who she needed. When she woke up with an ear infection, or didn't want gluten free bread so I told her unicorns eat it and that's how they poop rainbows (don't judge me!). This child was the sole reason in life why I needed to find my fight response and use it. Being a mom, a step mom, a parent automatically means you go to the fight mode. You fight for your kids, you protect them from whatever is harming them. That's what you do. You don't run away and hope for the best, you get them what they need. God Bless every single one of you parents out there, step parents just as much. Children need you, and you need them. When you want to go into "flight" mode and run away from the scariness, remember that child needs you to fight for them. 

always choose to fight for your children. Always.