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September 25, 2025 46 mins

On today's episode, Luis welcomes back Dr. Ingrid Clayton for a deep dive into fawning.

Both share their personal experiences with fawning, both historical and present, and how their relationship with this trauma response has evolved over time.

They discuss:

  • how conflict and authenticity feels risky, and fawning helps to avoid it
  • stepping into authenticity
  • increasing capacity for discomfort and relating to activation
  • finding safety in the self, and building a relationship with the self
  • how fawning breaks boundaries while also keeping you safe

Dr. Ingrid discusses her new book on fawning, and how writing it has been transformative.


You can visit Ingrid's website here: https://www.ingridclayton.com/

You can buy her book, "Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves – and How to Find Our Way Back", here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779579/fawning-by-dr-ingrid-clayton/


You can read more about, and register for, the Embodied Masculinity group here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-mens-group

You can read more about, and register for, the retreat at Blue Spirit Costa Rica here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/blue-spirit

You can register for the FREE Food Therapy session here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/weight-and-trauma

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