Rise: Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse
Welcome to Rise: Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse Podcast. I am your host, Jessica Heil, Registered Psychologist and DBT Certified Clinician. I am also a childhood sexual abuse survivor.
Rise: Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse
Fawning - the lesser-known trauma response
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Jessica Heil
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Episode 13
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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.