Nima Rahmany - The Fawn Response: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Abandonment

Oct 27, 2025
55 mins

Episode Description

Leigh Ann welcomes Nima Rahmany, a leading expert in shadow work, emotional regulation, and healing attachment wounds. Nima shares his journey from a successful chiropractic career to becoming a leading expert in emotional regulation and healing attachment wounds. Driven by his own experiences with toxic patterns, Nima now helps individuals break free from cycles of codependency and self-abandonment. The conversation explores how repressed emotions can contribute to disease and look deeper at the fawn response, a stress reaction characterized by people-pleasing behaviors. Dr. Nima discusses childhood patterns that lead to fawning and offers insights on transforming these responses in our adult relationships.

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