Trauma responses are individuals’ immediate, automatic reactions when faced with a threat or danger. The fawn response is one of four main types, along with fight, flight, and freeze.
When people experience trauma, especially in childhood, they may develop the fawn trauma response as a way to try to avoid further harm, avoid conflict, or gain approval from others. This response involves trying to please others, often at the expense of one’s own needs.
Individuals who show behaviours of the fawn trauma response may have grown up in an environment where they felt unsafe or threatened, so they became hyper-vigilant to the needs and emotions of others to stay safe from harm or rejection.
It’s easy to think negatively about how you learnt to cope when subjected to childhood trauma. But the first part of healing is understanding that those coping strategies helped you survive at the time. By understanding that they once served a necessary purpose, we can begin to let them go from a place of love.
15 июн 2024
