The Avocado Feeling

In this conversation, Sirisha explores the concept of fawning as a lesser-known survival response alongside fight, flight, and freeze. She shares her personal journey of recognizing how childhood experiences shaped her fawning behavior in adult relationships, leading to anxiety and self-abandonment. Sirisha discusses the physiological responses of the nervous system to emotional threats and offers strategies for healing, including self-awareness, boundary-setting, and reparenting the inner child.takeaways

• Fawning is a survival response that many people experience.
• Childhood experiences shape our emotional responses in adulthood.
• The nervous system reacts to emotional threats as if they are physical dangers.
• Fawning can lead to anxiety and self-abandonment in relationships.
• Awareness of our responses is the first step to healing.
• Setting boundaries is essential for self-care.
• Reparenting the inner child can help in healing.
• Fawning is not a weakness, but a learned survival strategy.
• Healing involves teaching the nervous system a new story.
• You're not broken; you're just human.

• "This is called fawning."
• "My body was choosing safety."
• "That's how we love."

Sound Bites Chapters

00:00 Understanding Fawning: A Hidden Survival Response

02:55 The Impact of Childhood on Adult Relationships

06:09 Recognizing and Healing Fawning Responses

keywords: fawning, survival response, emotional health, childhood trauma, relationship dynamics, self-awareness, healing, nervous system, boundaries, inner child

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I want to be consistent. I want to show up. But somehow, the moment something matters , I avoid it.

In this episode, I open up about my personal struggle with consistency. From cleaning the house before exams to rewatching old shows when I should be preparing for a job interview. I’ve noticed a pattern. One that looks like productivity, but is really just avoidance.

I talk about growing up in India, where achievement was everything. Where I learned that love and praise came after success, not before. And how that “good girl” conditioning, the pressure to be perfect, made it hard for me to try at all unless I felt 100% ready.

Together, we’ll unpack why consistency can feel unsafe, how our nervous system protects us by distracting us, and what I’m trying to do now, slowly to rebuild trust with myself.

This episode is for the quiet overachievers, the chronic avoiders, the ones who care deeply but freeze when it matters. You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re just human, and you’re not alone.

For ones who give love without limits, and are finally learning to ask for it back. This episode is for you.

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Love you, and until next time.

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Today's episode is truly special because my best friend Sandiaa Paramasivam of 10 years interviewed me.

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Super excited to have him on the show for the first time! 

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Let's welcome, Manikandan Krishnamurthy, our special guest on LYBL Podcast. He is a working professional who has always been my mentor for great mindset shifts, he always walks in a room with ounce of positively. And, he is here with us to share his experiences, positivity, tips to begin our 2023 on the right foot. Keep your notes handy and hearts open to listen to this episode on Yolo Mindset. 

Super excited to have him on the show for the second time! 

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Van Emmanuel is giving us all mixed-emotions! 😭 ❤️  

Super excited to have him on the show but, eventually this series has to end. But, he promised he will be back again with interesting conversations. So, have an eye out for that! 👀 

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This episode might be long, so grab your morning coffee and relax! Also, check out previous  episode(s) with Van Emmanuel Wilhoite, where we talk more about relationships, toxic people, narcissists, trauma responses, self-love, growth-mindset and much more! 

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Let's welcome, Van Emmanuel Wilhoite, our special guest. He is a food vloger, photographer, traveller, entrepreneur, digital nomad, cyber security engineer and most importantly a psychology graduate! His experiences and better, deeper understanding of life has many valuable takeaway from the show! Keep your notes handy and hearts open to listen to Path of life in a platter series!

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We will appreciate if you could take your time out, to rate and review this episode, show us some love on social media handles :

Checkout Van's food vlogs on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/loveoffood.stories/ 

Checkout Van's photography page: https://www.instagram.com/vanemman.photo/ 

To know more about his crypto startup: https://www.instagram.com/korii.xyz/ 

More info on crypto startup : https://www.ghostin.xyz/ 

This episode might be long, so grab your sunday morning coffee and relax! Also, look out for the next 2 week's episode(s) with Van Emmanuel Wilhoite, where we talk more about relationships, toxic people, narcissists, trauma responses, self-love, growth-mindset and much more!

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