Understanding your 'Fawn' stress response

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Here's another psycho-educational episode to help you understand what you're working with. We've heard of the fight or flight response, even the freeze response but what about the fourth response - fawn? Here psychotherapist Katie McKenna breaks down the fawn response, which includes a lot of the behaviours, triggering anxiety, that you'll be familiar with, including people pleasing.

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1:03.2	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forrin.
1:06.4	I am so thrilled to share this episode with you this week.
1:10.0	It is with an amazing psychotherapist called Katie McKenna.
1:12.9	She's Irish and we are talking about the fourth response, the fourth trauma response, which is Fawn. I've touched on this very, very
1:19.5	briefly in previous episodes, but here in this episode we go into it in really specific, great
1:24.8	detail and if anyone has ever struggled with people pleasing or saying
1:29.2	yes when you want to say no, or struggling to assert yourself, or feeling like you can't speak up or
1:34.7	you're afraid to appear a certain way, this is the episode for you. We unpack a lot and I hope you find
1:40.0	it as helpful as I did. I offer up myself as a guinea pig for Casey to help unpack. So thank you so
1:46.2	much for tuning in. Thank you as always for all of the feedback, the reviews, the likes, the shares.
1:51.4	Really appreciate it and yeah, enjoy.
2:00.6	Katie McKenna, thank you so much for joining me on owning it, the Anxiety Podcast. First of all,
2:05.8	welcome and how are you keeping? I'm really well. Thanks for having me on. It's a pleasure.
2:10.2	I was so happy when I got your email about coming on the podcast because you came to me with a topic.
2:15.4	So first of all, you are an accredited psychotherapist. Let's get that part known. And you came to me with a topic. So first of all, you are an accredited psychotherapist.
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