The Fawn Response: How to Heal People-Pleasing Trauma (35 Journal Prompts + The Pete Walker Framework)
The fawn response is a trauma survival pattern in which you instinctively appease, accommodate, or people-please in the face of perceived threat — instead of fighting, fleeing, or freezing. It is the fourth trauma response, and because it looks like kindness from the outside, it is the one that hides in