It’s Here!
My Book Fawning is Now Available for Pre-Order 🎉
Hi everyone,
I have some big news to share—Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back is officially available for pre-order!
This book is the culmination of years of research, personal reflection, and the countless conversations I’ve had with clients, colleagues, and many of you about the patterns that keep us stuck in cycles of self-abandonment. Fawning isn’t just about people-pleasing—it’s about understanding why we struggle to take up space, set boundaries, and fully own our needs. It’s about reclaiming ourselves.
If my work has resonated with you, I’d love for you to check it out. Pre-orders make an enormous difference in helping this book find its way into the world, and I’m so grateful for your support.
You can pre-order Fawning here!
And—I also had the pleasure of joining Dr. Robin Stern on The Gaslight Effect Podcast, where we unpacked some of the core ideas from Fawning—how gaslighting and fawning intersect, why it’s so hard to stop over-accommodating, and what it really takes to unfawn. The episode drops tomorrow, so be sure to tune in!
This is just the beginning of so many conversations I can’t wait to have with you.
I’ll be sharing more in the coming months—including behind-the-scenes insights, reflections, and ways we can all start unfawning together. But for now, I just want to say: thank you. This space, this community, this conversation—we’re in it together.
With warmth,
Dr. Ingrid Clayton




Welcome to Substack, look forward to Fawning, (I may do audiobook as well) ~ congrats!
please discuss somewhere how all of us who suffer from CPTSD can deal with the current political climate in the United States.