What is fawn response? The fawn response is when you attempt to avoid harm by using people-pleasing behaviors. It’s a complex trauma response that aims to avoid conflict and disapproval by appeasing the suppressor, even when it’s at the expense of your own needs, boundaries, or emotions...
What is trauma dumping? Trauma dumping is the act of sharing the details of a traumatic experience without asking for permission or considering the listener. Also known as emotional dumping, it can overwhelm those on the receiving end. Emotional dumping is a relatively typical trauma response to ...
This happens because the body’s threat response (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) turns off the part of the brain that can think long-term when we are in crisis. This creates the feeling that we need the abuser to survive, and is often mistaken for “love.” Trauma-bonding is a hormonal...
: TRIGGERS, HEALING AND ADVOCACY TRAUMA IS THE RESPONSE TO A DEEPLY DISTRESSING OR DISTURBING EVENT THAT OVERWHELMS AN INDIVIDUAL'S ABILITY TO COPE, CAUSES FEELINGS OF HELPLESSNESS, DIMINISHES THEIR SENSE OF SELF AND THEIR ABILITY TO FEEL THE FULL RANGE OF EMOTIONS AND EXPERIENCES. What is ...
In Response To: Toast Posted on July 21, 2020 There is something to be said about learning to find joy in small things. Today I made the perfect piece of toast (at least to my standard of what the perfect piece of toast should be). The bread was golden like some sort of Midas-...
this fawn colour is just the cat's skin pigmentation, which is actually artificially masking the paleness of the nose. Look closely - there is no pink in this nose (the less pigmented parts of the nose should have a lovely rich pink shade). The cat is so anaemic and pale that there ...
3 Trauma and Consent 5 Trauma and the Body Basics 6 Trauma and cPTSD 101 14 Fear/Shame and the Anatomy of a Trauma Response 30 Chronic Shame 39 Stuck in alone or together: An opportunity to address stuck patterns Addressing stuck patterns when stuck in alone Addressing stuck patterns when ...