Fawning: How We Can Lose Ourselves and How to Come Back with Dr. Ingrid Clayton

Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder

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Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Education, Talk Radio, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this conversation, Kimberly speaks with Dr. Ingrid Clayton who shares her journey of understanding complex trauma and the Fawn response. After years of therapy and personal work, she reflects on her struggles with self-acceptance and healthy relationships. Through her experiences and education in psychology, she has gained new perspectives that have facilitated her healing process.

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Chapters

00:00 Understanding the Fawn Response

00:35 Signs of Fawning in Relationships

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness.
0:07.9	When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible
0:22.9	results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives.
0:32.1	I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna,
0:39.3	creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. I am passionate about
0:46.6	supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. Let's get started.
1:02.6	Hi, everyone, and welcome back to our Monday interview show. Today, I'm very excited to share with you a conversation I had with Dr. Ingrid Clayton, who is a clinical psychologist. She has a new
1:08.7	book out called Fawning, Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose
1:12.7	Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back. It's a really interesting subject matter because you've
1:18.0	probably heard of fight or flight, of course, as it relates to the nervous system. There's also
1:22.3	freeze. And now we find there's this fourth maladaptive coping strategy known as faunning, which is related
1:30.1	to people pleasing, but it's really a way to feel safe, to survive.
1:35.1	And it's really important to talk about because it's actually really common.
1:39.5	I know I experienced some of this in my own childhood.
1:42.8	It can affect our relationships to this day, including our relationship with ourselves,
1:47.9	with our hearts, affects our nervous system.
1:51.5	It affects our health and vitality.
1:53.0	So I'm really excited to share about fawning with you today with Dr. Ingrid.
1:58.1	Before we get into the show, though, want to remind you to please join our
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