But one day (maybe today?!) we can see how great we are. We can choose ourselves. We can stop doing their work and start doing our own. The deeply rooted work of nervous system regulation. The work of RESCUING OURSELVES. We will look at these strategies in the unfawning section of this book, but here is where there is some good news for fawners: We are brilliant caretakers. We have loads of resourcefulness. We are creative and compassionate and willing to go to any lengths. And when we turn all of that back on ourselves, to rescue all the parts of us that we lost along the way, we can finally
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