How to Expertly Develop Your Character's Fatal Flaw

Tragic Flaw Definition, Importance & Examples

In today’s live on Insight Timer, we explored the window of tolerance and spent time with the part that often gets misunderstood: hypoarousal. For many people with trauma histories, the nervous system doesn’t always go into fight-or-flight. Sometimes it shuts down. Slows. Goes flat. Heavy. Foggy. And then the mind piles on: “You’re lazy.” “You should be doing more.” “What’s wrong with you?” But this isn’t a character flaw. It’s a nervous system response. When we can name hypoarousal for what it