Somatic awareness—the practice of tuning into the body’s sensations and signals—is a powerful tool for understanding our emotions, especially those as intense as anger. Anger is a natural and necessary emotion, but...

Have you ever heard the term “people-pleasing”? According to Harriet B. Braiker, Ph.D., author of The Disease to Please,  people pleasers are not just nice people who go overboard trying to make everyone happy. Their uncontrollable need for approval from others is a debilitating defense mechanism.  In other words, it’s a survival strategy known as the fawn response—a subset of the freeze response.