{"product_id":"fawning-ingrid-clayton-9798217045327","title":"Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--And How to Find Our Way Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing \u003ci\u003efawning\u003c\/i\u003e, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma--explaining what it is, why it happens, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost of us are familiar with the three Fs of trauma--flight, fight, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth, extremely common (yet little-understood) response: fawning. Often conflated with \"codependency\" or \"people pleasing,\" fawning occurs when we inexplicably draw \u003ci\u003ecloser\u003c\/i\u003e to a person or relationship that causes pain, rather than pulling away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFawning explains why we stay in bad jobs, fall into unhealthy partnerships, and seek out dysfunctional environments, even when it seems so obvious to others that we should go. And fawning \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e serve a purpose--it's a protective response to an unsafe situation. But when fawning turns from an emergency coping mechanism into an everyday habit, it stops being useful and starts being a real problem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe good news: we can break the pattern of chronic fawning for good, once we see it for the trauma response it is. Drawing on twenty years of clinical psychology work--as well as a lifetime of experience as a recovering fawner herself--Dr. Ingrid Clayton has written a groundbreaking book that brings this emerging concept into the mainstream conversation. Readers will learn WHY we fawn, HOW to recognize the signs of fawning (including taking blame, conflict avoidance, hypervigilance, and caretaking at the expense of ourselves), and WHAT we can do to successfully \"unfawn\" and finally be ourselves, in all our imperfect perfection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA landmark book full of empathy and understanding, \u003ci\u003eFawning\u003c\/i\u003e offers trauma survivors the vocabulary to discuss their experiences--and, in so doing, gives them the tools to finally heal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ingrid Clayton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217045327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e G.P. Putnam's Sons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Ingrid Clayton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46618256703743,"sku":"9798217045327","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a21d246-8a2c-4365-8ce2-3feb67b37c55.jpg?v=1740069594","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fawning-ingrid-clayton-9798217045327","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}