Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn: Religion and Trauma Responses [245]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today I want to explore the four common responses people have when they have experienced or are experiencing something that is threatening or traumatic. In particular, I want to focus on the fawning response and how that relates to our view of and our relationship with God. Let’s break down our responses of fight, flight, fawn, and freeze, and then destroy the false, abusive version of the God that we may have in our minds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to episode 245 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | Today I want to talk about the four common responses people have when they have experienced or are experiencing something that is threatening or traumatic. |
| 0:36.7 | And in particular, I want to focus on the fawning response and how that relates to our view of and our relationship with God. |
| 0:45.0 | Now I got inspired to talk about this from someone I follow on Facebook. |
| 0:50.0 | His name is Shane Mo, M-O-E, and he is a licensed therapist in the Twin Cities area who |
| 0:56.3 | specializes in E MDR DBT and IFS therapies and you can follow him and I recommend you do because he has a really good |
| 1:03.8 | posts every day by going to Facebook.com forward slash |
| 1:08.0 | Shane P mow spelled s-h-a-n-e the letter letter P-M-O-E, Mo. Now I did reach out to him to see if he would have some time to talk |
| 1:17.0 | about today's topic with me here on the podcast with me, but he declined. |
| 1:21.2 | However, he did give me permission to use a post he wrote |
| 1:25.0 | as a springboard to create this episode. |
| 1:28.2 | So in his post, he included an image |
| 1:31.8 | from Sky Jathani, I'm not really sure if I'm saying that right, of the Holy |
| 1:36.1 | Post, and I'm going to describe the picture here since we are in audio format. |
| 1:42.4 | I'm going to describe it as best I can so that you can see it in your |
| 1:46.1 | imagination. So imagine a circle on a piece of paper and at the top of the circle is this little |
| 1:51.6 | family, a mom, a dad, and two kids. |
| 1:54.3 | And this family perceives that they are being threatened in some way. |
| 1:58.5 | Maybe they believe that the government is out to get them and take away their right. |
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