Category: Codependency

What is the Fawn Response?

4/14/2023

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What is the Fawn Response?

The Fawn response is a trauma response that is characterized by self-abandonment in relationships and overly-focusing on the needs of others. The Fawn Response is chronic, compulsive people-pleasing, which most often begins in childhood as a result of relational trauma.

Why Are Highly Sensitive People Prone to People-Pleasing?

5/27/2022

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What is a “Highly Sensitive Person” (HSP)? Highly Sensitive Person is a term used to describe 15-20% of the population who are born with a unique sensory processing trait that allows them to notice more subtleties in their environment, resulting in both deeper processing (thinking & feeling) and a tendency toward becoming overwhelmed by stimuli more quickly. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of high sensitivity you can start here: The Highly Sensitive Person: A Form of Neurodivergence.

Being Highly Sensitive comes with many positives. Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) are known for being conscientious and creative, they tend to pick up on subtleties others miss and have the capacity for deep empathy. But just like anything, being an HSP comes with its own set of challenges to work through. One such challenge is a tendency toward people-pleasing and conflict avoidance.

What Is Codependency?

5/13/2022

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Codependency is a pattern of relating that’s characterized by a lack of personal boundaries and over-focusing on the needs, wants, and/or problems of others.

Codependency was originally used to describe behaviors of spouses and children of alcoholics. But because codependent patterns can manifest in many different contexts outside of addiction, the definition has since expanded.

People-Pleasing as a Trauma Response

4/22/2022

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What is People-Pleasing?

People-pleasing is an orientation to others, instead of an orientation to the Self. People-Pleasing is built on a deep, globalized belief that we cannot trust ourselves so we must look to other people in order to know what is acceptable, lovable, and OK.

Passivity During Conflict: Healthy or Unhealthy?

11/5/2019

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Is being passive during conflict an intelligent thing to do or is it a symptom of emotional issues such as codependency? The short answer is that it can be either depending upon the degree of conscious choice involved in the behavior.

What is the Fawn Response?

What is the Fawn Response?

Why Are Highly Sensitive People Prone to People-Pleasing?

What Is Codependency?

People-Pleasing as a Trauma Response

What is People-Pleasing?

Passivity During Conflict: Healthy or Unhealthy?

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