All Posts

Why was HHOM LLC born? Dr. Howard Friedman shares the personal and professional story behind founding Howard’s House of Medicine — a place where veterans and patients come first.

When “being easy” becomes survival, the body remembers. This post explores fawn response trauma—how it forms, how it hides in plain sight, and how healing begins.

Anger begins in the body long before it becomes a thought. In this first part of my series on emotional biology, I explain how the nervous system creates anger, why it rises so quickly, and how understanding the physiology changes the way we respond to it.

We don’t return to toxic relationships because we want pain. We return because trauma bonds make familiar hurt feel safer than unfamiliar peace. This essay explores the biology, psychology, and identity patterns that keep people tied to what harms them—and how to finally break the cycle.