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Ep #209: Overcoming Fawning

Feminist Wellness

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The FONing Response in the Nervous System

FON is a mixed nervous system state. It's part sympathetic activation, fight or flight and part dorsal which is that shut down freeze response. So your focus is on keeping others happy as a way to attempt to source safety. You're in this acetylcholine state but you're also frozen inside to your emotions,. The outcomes of FON are not awesome.

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