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[Bonus Episode] Navigating Fawning, The Most Overlooked Trauma Response

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The Somatic Threat Response

A threat response is when your body has a reaction to a perceived or real threat. It can be anything as simple as you see a scary movie when you're three, it could be an animal running out in front of your car or it can be as large as your life is actually being threatened. The responses are pretty similar but what makes someone's trauma deeper or more severe than someone else's is the repetition of the threat. I just want to make sense of this threat response for you so you can understand how fawning fits into it.

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