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Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--and How to Find Our Way Back Elena Pala Near the topmost deck ofFrom a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning, an often overlooked piece of the fight flight freeze reaction to traumaexplaining what it is, why it happens, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self. Most of us are familiar with the three F's of traumafight, flight, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth, extremely common (yet little understood)