Fawning, the Vagus Nerve and Ambivalent Attachment

About the Event

Have you ever smiled when your heart wanted to scream? Or said yes while your body whispered no? How have we twisted ourselves to stay close to love, even when it harmed us? Fawning is the survival song we learn to sing when love feels conditional. This session will look at the dance between appeasement and attachment, through the lens of the vagus nerve and its role in shaping our relational responses. What does your body remember about how to stay close? And what becomes possible when we can rewrite that script? We meet our strategies with tenderness—not to fix them, but to understand and appreciate their roots. Join Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske for an inquiry into fawning, nervous system intelligence, and the longings underneath compliance.

Cost and How to Register

*PLEASE NOTE:

• Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
• The course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
• This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this event may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.

If you have questions or need support, please email help@sarahpeyton.com

About Sarah and Jaya

Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal personal and collective trauma with exquisite gentleness.

Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.

Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.

Jaya Manske is a transformative healing-centered coach and resonant healing practitioner with a passion for supporting people to cultivate kindness, compassion and gentleness for themselves and reconnect to their wholeness and mattering. She has been an empathetic practitioner since 2001 and is a member of Sarah’s team.

A former educator with a degree focused on developmental theory, Jaya has an in-depth background in attachment theory and how resonance transforms our ability to be in a kinder relationship with ourselves and others.

Informed by developmental theory, relational neuroscience, and the ways trauma impacts the brain and nervous system, Jaya offers resonant empathy, unconscious contracts/sacred vow work, time travel empathy, and is a certified mindfulness and wellness coach.