Status Updates From Fawning: Why the Need to Pl...

"Unfawning is a growing up. We who have relied on this safety strategy since childhood inadvertently stayed small and childlike and didn't know it. We were stuck in time. Unfawning means getting reacquainted with the self we tucked away."

"For fawners, internal safety is always reliant on the condition of external safety, so it remains at arm's length: in somebody else's body or ideology, in their perception or story. Merging with distorted views erodes our self trust and our sense of self altogether."