Wendy

“When children experience trauma, they are faced with something so terrible or extreme that it overwhelms their ability to cope. The traumatic event activates a fight, flight, or freeze response, which can affect children’s bodies, brains, emotions, and behavior. (Researchers have recently noted a possible fourth response to trauma called the fawn response, where victims respond to trauma by trying to appease or please the threatening person.3)”
― Jennifer Ranter Hook, Thriving Families: A Trauma-Informed Guidebook for the Foster and Adoptive Journey