Ep #208: Fawn Response and Healthy Anger
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
#208: You’ve likely heard of fight, flight, and freeze nervous system responses as ways we protect ourselves when our boundaries are crossed, but there is a fourth: fawning. Fawning shows up for a lot of people, especially for those of us raised as girls and living as women, and this week, we’re exploring what it looks and feels like, and why you might have developed this habit in the face of anger.
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| 0:00.0 | This is feminist wellness and I'm your host nurse practitioner functional medicine expert and life coach Victoria Albina. |
| 0:15.0 | I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism and codependency so you can live from your beautiful heart. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome, my love. Let's get started. so you can live from your beautiful heart. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome, my love, let's get started. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, my love, I hope this finds you doing so well. |
| 0:34.6 | Apropos of absolutely nothing, I was doing a podcast interview yesterday on someone else's |
| 0:39.0 | show and they asked me what the thing is that's lighting me up right now. |
| 0:44.0 | They said a book, a TV show, something I'm studying. |
| 0:48.0 | And from the depths of my heart, what came to me is love. Love is what's lighting me up right now. Everything I do in my life is driven by my love. For you me for humanity for all of our relations for all of |
| 1:08.6 | existence for life I'm feeling particularly grateful to be alive, to be a human, to live the life I get to live. |
| 1:19.9 | And this wasn't always the case. I've been through some dark dark nights. |
| 1:25.0 | And right now, I'm reveling in gratitude. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm reveling in love. |
| 1:32.0 | So I just wanted to share that. No matter where you're at, no matter how |
| 1:36.5 | dark or dismal things seem, no matter how disconnected from yourself, from joy, from |
| 1:41.3 | love you may feel right now. |
| 1:44.4 | There is light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, |
| 1:47.4 | and I may not have believed it myself when things felt really dire, but I know that hearing it was always supportive and that |
| 1:56.7 | there was some part of me that hurt it, that took it in, that was able to hold on to hope, that life would get so much better if I just |
| 2:08.2 | continued to focus on growing, on healing, on living into being the person I know I am here to be, which is a vessel |
| 2:20.1 | of love in this world. |
| 2:22.4 | So that's what's up for me. |
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