Standard issue for all women.

Hello, Jen here to welcome you to a brand new week of the standard issue podcast

and introduce today's episode.

But before I do, here's what else we've got coming up this week.

Tomorrow, Mick's been on the Zoom with her favourite Natalie, author and broadcaster Natalie Haynes,

to talk about one of the classics most fascinating, resonant and powerful women, Medea.

On Wednesday is rated or dated and Hannah has picked Brokeback Mountain.

She wishes she knew how to quit Angley's 2005 classic.

I mean, this is a bit of a spoiler here, but she doesn't. She bloody loves it.

On Thursday, the Bush Telegraph and Mick and I will be reuniting after a summer break from the news

to talk you through the week's top stories and some nice stuff about animals, hopefully.

And on Friday, Hannah's talking about the acting bug and mental health with

Maya Novi as her off-Broadway hit invasive species arrives in the UK. But back to today,

clinical psychologist, trauma therapist and complex trauma survivor Dr. Ingrid Clayton

took years to understand how she'd reacted to abuse within her home as a young

person. What she later understood to be a relational trauma response known as fawning helped her to

also make sense of her behaviour and relationships in the years that followed. That work has

informed her new book, Forning, why the need to please makes us lose ourselves.

I caught up with Ingrid to chat about why we sometimes lean into situations that make us feel unsafe, the long-term impacts of this behaviour, and why we should revisit the narrative around trauma

responses.

I'm not going to lie to you, I felt quite seen by this chat, and I really enjoyed Ingrid's

a fascinating book. I hope you

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