The Power of Love and Relationships

Fawning is a hierarchical stress response, it is really common when we've experienced any form of trama or abuse. We're literally trying to create safety out of, you know, a four alarm fire. It's one of the possible doors that we'll go through in order to protect ourselves from harm. When we aren't getting the kind of secure, loving safety we need rom our care givers, we will try to manufacture that ourselves by being whatever we think the care giver needs and to feel safe. So fawning doesn't necessarily have to be the rest. If you are in a healed dynamic, as you put it, the person who has a history of fond

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