Hey listeners quick heads up. We want to give a content warning for this episode. We're talking about trauma and triggers and survival responses

We don't talk about anything terribly graphic or specific in this episode, but we can understand that it could be

activating for some people listening. So just make sure that you know that ahead of time and feel free to take care of yourselves

in whichever way that you need. My New Jerk is probably more of a fight response,

like just based on like what comes up in my body,

like on my body tends to be more feelings of like annoyance, anger, aggression, things like that and often that's connected

to a fight response, not always, but often.

I don't know, I think it's all over the place. Because I've definitely also been in situations where it's 100% fun

You know I think that especially at this point in one's life when you've had a good 30 years or so of being in a lot of different

threat potentially threatening situations both in like very major ways and

maybe very minor ways like you do learn that sometimes depending on the context very

different things come out of you. Welcome to the multi-amory podcast. I'm

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On this episode of the multi-ammeray podcast we're talking about fight, flight, freeze, and maybe when you haven't heard of fawn. Fawn is also known as appeasing or people pleasing. Today we're going to take a deep dive into what all four of these responses look like, how they might be affecting your relationships, how to determine which one you tend to use in difficult situations,

and some tips to help if your response has become unproductive or maybe unhealthy to you.

So I just want to quickly shout out. or maybe unhealthy to you.

So I just want to quickly shout out a patron who turned me on to this topic in a discussion group that we had recently. Thank you very much because I had not heard of the fawn.

Really?

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