This is different from having and teaching manners. All because it makes the other person feel better. We make them stay still when they want to move and we tell them to let people hug them when they don’t want to be touched. We teach our children to fawn by saying “smile” when they don’t want to. Fawning is when we appease, people please, pretend we are happy when we’re not, and even consent to things we don’t really want in order to mollify the emotions of others around us.įawning is widely displayed and, innocently, taught. This fourth response is known as ‘fawning’. They are all self-explanatory, but what about the fourth response? One so insidious and societally acceptable (even rewarded), that we barely even talk about it or notice it’s there? These are trauma responses - the automatic responses from your body when you experience threat. We’ve all heard about fight, flight & freeze. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Exposing the often overlooked 4 th trauma response and taking down our learned behaviors that satisfy the needs of others but abandon our own
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