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SCOUT· 26%1h 14m·2025-09-08·Mental HealthPeople Pleasing and the Fawn Response with Meg Josephson
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
Forrest and therapist Meg Josephson explore the fawn response, a survival strategy where safety is sought by pleasing other people. They discuss how fawning can start as self-protection in childhood, but later morph into overthinking, hypervigilance, and self-abandonment. Meg shares her own experience, including how…
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