If your primary response to unpleasant, difficult, or traumatizing interactions is the ‘fawn’ response, you likely avoid conflict as much as possible and will deny your own truth in an attempt to make those you feel dependent upon and/or care about comfortable. But in reality, ‘fawning’ and appeasing others serves no one in the end…






The ‘fawn’ response is an instinctual response associated with a need to avoid conflict and trauma via appeasing behaviors. For children, fawning behaviors ...