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#317 Fawning – What Is It, Why Do We Do It, and How To Stop
Intentional Living with Tanya Hale
English - July 22, 2024 07:11 - 34 minutes - 63.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 105 ratingsHealth & Fitness happiness lifeskills purpose adultchildren divorce latterdaysaint lds lifecoach middleage midlife Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In recent years, fawning has been added to the survival responses of flight, flight, and freeze. While fight is a conflict strategy and flight and freeze are avoidant strategies, fawning is referred to as an appeasement strategy. When we fawn we seek to bring ourselves into alignment with the other person, who our brains perceive as a threat, by people-pleasing, saying yes when we want to say no, or doing what it takes to avoid conflict. Though fawning can work out well short-term by diffusing the situation, it makes it impossible for us to create healthy relationships. Understanding what fawning is, why we do it, and how to stop is an important conversation.