The Best of You

Episode 14: The Fawn Response & The Hidden Root of People Pleasing


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Psychology Buzzwords are back, only this time you picked the topics! This week we're focusing on the 4 Fear Responses, often called Survival Responses or Trauma Responses, with a special look at the Fawn Response.

1. What are 4 common fear responses? 

2. What is the freeze response? 

3. What is disassociation? 

4. How are these responses helpful? 

5. What is this Fawn Response? 

6. What are the hidden fears underneath it?

7. Why doesn't talking myself out of a fear response work? 

8. What *does* work to help me return to calm?


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