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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 chaos feels safe, it is not a flaw in character but a nervous system that learned vigilance early. This piece explores childhood trauma, hypervigilance, and how the body relearns safety when danger is gone.

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.