Coming out of the Fawn Response
The fawn response is “a response to a threat by becoming more appealing to the threat.” - Pete Walker
Try this free trauma healing exercise to help the nervous system move out of the fawn response and:
- Balance the nervous system to rekindle a sense of calm and safety
- Gently release traumatic memories and energy held in the tissues
- Build a deeper, stronger, and safer relationship with your body
- Safely shift traumatic memories to relieve fear and intrusive thoughts
- Restore sensations of power and self-agency to ease dissociation and vulnerability
The fawn trauma response manifests as a way to avoid danger or cope with trauma by appeasing the threat at the expense of your own needs and desires. Typical fawning behaviors include:
- Difficulty Saying ‘No’
- People-Pleasing
- Overly Apologetic
- Avoiding Conflict
We understand that after experiencing trauma, finding your voice again is challenging.
We are here to remind you that your voice matters. Your boundaries deserve to be acknowledged and respected. Your needs are valid and important. That is why we're offering you a free exercise focused on healing the voice after trauma.
This somatic healing exercise hopes to support you in releasing tension and trauma stored in the tissues of the neck and gently guide you towards reclaiming the power of your voice.
We invite you to enter your details below to receive free access to a trauma healing exercise that can support you or others in healing the voice after trauma.
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Meet Rewire Therapy’s Trauma Healing Experts
Rewire Trauma Therapy carefully curates 10-minute trauma healing exercises from over 8 body-based therapies to release the debilitating effects of trauma in a way that words cannot. Our body-based therapeutic exercises integrate elements from the following:
- Polyvagal Theory inspired vagal toning exercises
- Dance and movement therapies
- Trauma-informed yoga
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapies
- Somatic therapies
- Qigong
- Sound and music therapies
- Tai Chi
- Martial arts
- Hypnotherapy
- Expressive art therapies
