There was a trauma (stress trigger) that happened to me which prompted a fight and flight (mobilizing “running”) response to get to safety. Unfortunately, it took me years to realize that I was living in a continuous fight and flight mode angry, agitated and frantic state (stress phase) and what started this realization is the constant pain that I feel in my left knee when I started to play sports and was triggered by stress as usual. This pain is on-off and would not go away no matter what I do, I went to many doctors and tried several treatments and physiotherapy but still I get it whenever I am in a stressed situation. After that, the healing journey began (regeneration phase) varying from having ups and downs, panic attacks triggered by a smell and a lot of therapy (CPT and EMDR), meditation and yoga to get to the root of the problem. I am a lot better now thank God but still I don’t think I’ve reached the auto-regulation phase.