Gemma Spike
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15,259 appearances
32 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Gemma Spike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This often keeps us safe and accepted.
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And as a child, that is our ultimate goal.
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At this point in our lives, belonging is all that we really care about.
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But one way that this response also shows up that shows that this is more survival than anything else is through the fawning response.
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You've likely heard of fight, flight, or freeze.
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I'm pretty sure you have.
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Fawning is the silent fourth response that primarily impacts women and people who've experienced trauma or people who hold less power in society.
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Fawning was first identified by the psychotherapist his name was Peter Walker in this book he wrote.
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This book came out in 2013.
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It was on complex PTSD.
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And in the book he essentially says
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If you can't escape a threat and you can't fight a threat or you can't wait out a threat, you
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bec you will become something that the threat likes.
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And you will therefore hope that the threat will be nice to you.
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Fawning can include people pleasing, it can include chronic apologizing.
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Conflict avoidance?
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Excessive caretaking?
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emotional achievement to others at the expense of ourselves over agreeing.
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I feel like that's basically good girl syndrome and good girl complex in just fewer words.
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They are incredibly tied.
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