As babies, we don't come into the world knowing how to lift our heads and extend through the back. In fact, we spend nine months in the womb in flexion, which makes fetal position the go-to response when threatened or overwhelmed. Anxiety itself is a compulsive unconscious pattern. In this lesson, use awareness to reactivate the organization of your core that coordinates power throughout the extensor muscles and allows you to release the disassociation from the abdominals that is common after many losses or emotional turmoil.