In the powerful new book FAWNING: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back, Dr. Ingrid Clayton, clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery,  introduces "fawning", an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma.  Drawing on twenty years of clinical psychology work—as well as a lifetime of experience as a recovering fawner herself, Dr. Clayton explains  what fawning is: why it happens, how to recognize the signs (taking blame, conflict avoidance, hypervigilance, caretaking at the expense of ourselves), and what we can be done to heal ourselves and help survivors "unfawn".