Self-Help
Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--and How to Find Our Way Back
2025·304 pages
A psychologist’s guide to fawning—the overlooked trauma response of people-pleasing—blending memoir and clinical insight to help readers reclaim themselves.
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A psychologist’s guide to fawning—the overlooked trauma response of people-pleasing—blending memoir and clinical insight to help readers reclaim themselves.
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From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning , an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma—explaining what it is, why it happens, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self. Most of us are familiar with the three F's of trauma—fight, flight, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth, extremely common (yet little-understood) response: fawning. Often conflated with “codepend...
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Sexual content
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Sexual assault referenced in trauma context; no romantic content
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Trauma and abuse referenced without graphic violent detail
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Substance use
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Addiction, alcoholism, and drug abuse themes in trauma recovery
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Self-harm / suicide
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Suicidal thoughts discussed within trauma recovery framework
Abuse & suffering
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Child abuse, sexual assault, emotional abuse, toxic relationships central
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