Rise: Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse

Fawning - the lesser-known trauma response


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Today I describe the fawn response. Fawning is a stress response that is learned as a child that helps us stay safe. Fawning is when we try to please and appease an abusive authority figure in order to try to prevent harm from coming to us. 

Reference:

Walker, Pete (2013). Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. Lafayette: Azure Coyote. 

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