Survival Mode: Fawn
Ivy Griffin
Fawning is a survival mode we are more likely to enter when our mind determines the best course of action for safety and well being is to appease the threat instead of confronting (fight), avoiding (flight), or shutting down (freeze). When one is fawning, the self is suppressed often unconsciously (you may disconnect from your own thoughts, feelings, sensations/experiences, opinions, beliefs/moral code) and there is an attempt to keep the peace in order to avoid conflict by aligning more with the desires or will of the threat. From an outsider's perspective an fawning can look like co-dependence, people pleasing, and poor boundaries.
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