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Deborah Demander's avatar

I love this! In all my years of training in and teaching trauma informed yoga, I’d never yet heard of fawning. Thank you for shedding some light on my weary soul. After nearly twenty years in an abusive marriage, I fawn all over the place. I’m working on not apologizing and as I change my own approach, I notice how so many of my friends, my daughters, my clients and my students apologize for things that have nothing to do with them or are not their fault.

Now that I know the term, I will be more cognizant of not apologizing for my existence.

Excellent article!

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Stacey Vulakh's avatar

Thank you for writing about this. Thank you for your grace (when I'm late) is my go-to and teaching my littles to say, excuse me instead of I'm sorry (when appropriate) has been an on-going lesson.

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