Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock Most people think of people-pleasing as a harmless habit, but fawning is something entirely different — a trauma ...

Meg Josephson is a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in trauma-informed care. She is also a certified meditation teacher through the Nalanda Institute. People-pleasing is not a personality ...

Your people-pleasing habit isn't a personality quirk. It could, in fact, be a deep-rooted trauma response you’ve never even questioned. When you grow up in unpredictable environments or experience ...

In the quiet corners of trauma, there lies a response often misinterpreted, overlooked, or dismissed as mere "people-pleasing." It’s not always fight or flight. It’s not even freeze mode. Sometimes, ...

Fawning is a survival mechanism that develops in response to trauma—a fourth response alongside the better-known fight, flight, and freeze reactions. Psychotherapist Pete Walker defines fawning as “a ...

Fight or flight are not the only common responses to a traumatic event. I addressed this a bit in a column published on November 22, 2022 explaining that some authors describe “4 F’s”: fight, flight, ...

Most people think of people-pleasing as a harmless habit, but fawning is something entirely different — a trauma response so overlooked and misunderstood that most people don’t even realize they’re ...