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It’s not your personality. It’s your trauma response. Let’s unlearn it.
If the fawn response hit too close — the over-giving, the shrinking, the guilt that shows up every time you try to say no — this is for you.
I just released a new tool:
The Fawn Recovery Guide
A multi-page survival manual for people who are done bleeding to keep the peace.
What’s inside:
What fawning really is (not kindness — compliance)
How to recognize when you’re mid-fawn
What to say when your mouth freezes
How to ride out the shame spiral that comes after setting a boundary
A reminder that guilt is not a reliable narrator
A way to come back to yourself after years of disappearing
It’s free.
No paywall. No funnel.
Just clarity. You can pay what you want — or nothing at all.
You don’t need to perform niceness to be loved.
You don’t need to apologize for not being agreeable.
You don’t need to bleed to be safe.
You’re allowed to be sharp.
You’re allowed to say no.
You’re allowed to protect your own nervous system like your life depends on it — because maybe it does.
If this helps, share it. If it hits, keep it close.
—Cody Taymore
Kill The Silence
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You’re always the one who stays late.
You know what sucks though, when one does have solid boundaries, holds themselves and others to a high standard- they often, okay I, feel alone much of the time. Maybe it’s more prevalent in women friendships, but man it’s tough. Fucking brutal.
Fools said I you do not know. Silence like a cancer grows
People writing songs that no one hears. The Sound of Silence