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Fawning: The Missing Piece in Traumatic Healing

Fawning: The Missing Piece in Traumatic Healing, by Luis Mojica. Photograph of puzzle pieces by Markus Winkler
Photograph by Markus Winkler

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Exposing the often overlooked 4th trauma response and taking down our learned behaviors that satisfy the needs of others but abandon our own

We’ve all heard about fight, flight & freeze. These are trauma responses — the automatic responses from your body when you experience threat. They are all self-explanatory, but what about the fourth response? One so

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