Do You Care Too Much What Other People Think of You? Avoid Conflict? Say Yes When You Shouldn't? | Dr. Ingrid Clayton, Fawning Expert

Practical tools to turn down the volume on fawning. Dr. Ingrid Clayton is a licensed clinical psychologist with a master's in transpersonal psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Her book is FAWNING: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find our Way Back. In this episode we talk about: • What is fawning, actually • Chronic vs situational fawning • The physiological ramifications of fawning • How power plays into all of this • Ways to get clarity around unseen bruises and wounds that drive your behavior • Owning your anger – and how to express it in healthy ways • How to know if you're a fawner • Practical steps to unfawn • Accessible approaches to regulating your nervous system • How to set boundaries • Fawning and un-fawning in a work context, specifically • And her observation, which I've been thinking about a lot, that wounding happens in relationships… but so does healing This holiday season, 10% Happier is teaming up with dozens of podcasts for an ambitious goal: to lift three entire villages in Rwanda out of extreme poverty. Join us by visiting GiveDirectly.org/Dan and supporting the #PodsFightPoverty campaign.

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