Often mistakenly labeled as codependency fawning can present as being more of who someone is:
smart generous successful funny or beautiful while for others it' s about being less:
vocal ethnic creative self-assured or boundaried. Fawning can be visible or invisible it
can take the shape of sex money or the perpetual emotional regulationof others but one thing
remains constant: it is about finding safety in an unsafe world often at our own expense.
Written by fawning expert and clinical psychologist Dr. Ingrid Clayton Fawning will be the
first of its kind shininga light on this under-represented but extremely important piece of
the trauma puzzle. Clayton draws upon bothpersonal and clinical experiences of the trauma
response and provides resources and tools for anyone who has lostintrinsic parts of themselves
by constantly orienting to safety through self-abandonment. This book is for thosewho want to
finally lessen their shame about patterns that haven' t served for a long time. It is for
doctors therapists and all those in the helping professions who need to understand this form
and function of how the body seeks tosurvive trauma. This book is for the cycle breakers who
don' t want to carry unprocessed trauma down to futuregenerations or foster another
generation of fawners who aren' t entitled to the full spectrum of human emotion shrinking
in the face of what caregivers can tolerate. It is for those who have been told to read all the
literature oncodependency and still don' t see themselves reflected. Fawning is for anyone
who has felt stuck in relationships longing for meaningful reciprocal connections and most
importantly a true relationship to Self.
