Is your child or teen an externalized expression of PDA (fight/flight) or more internalized (freeze/fawn)? Two things to remember: It can be a mix! And equalizing behavior for an intenalized expression of PDA can be turned towards self (e.g. hitting oneself, cutting, restricting one’s own eating, staying up late to get back to a place of nervous system safety, destroying one’s own things, etc). I often see parents come into my coaching practice and programs with internalized experssions later (t