YogaVision, Toronto, ON (2026)

02/23/2026

Always putting others first is a nervous system pattern.

If you feel drained, resentful, or disconnected from yourself, people-pleasing might be your body trying to avoid rejection or conflict.

This is the fawn response.

Kundalini Yoga works at the level of the nervous system.

You strengthen your navel center so your willpower grows.
You expand your aura so your boundaries feel solid.
You repeat Sat Nam so your truth becomes easier to speak.

Saying no stops feeling dangerous.
Holding your ground stops feeling selfish.
Your body learns that you are safe.

If this resonates, start with my free YouTube library and explore the practices that rebuild self-trust. Comment SAFE and I’ll send you the link.

And if you are ready for deeper, structured support, applications for Kundalini Yoga Training are open. Book your Discovery Call through the link in my bio.

You do not have to abandon yourself to belong.

Love,
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/22/2026

Setting boundaries feels terrifying when your nervous system learned that safety meant keeping everyone else comfortable.

If you live in a fawn response, boundaries do not feel empowering. They feel dangerous.

Your body learned:
• If I upset them, I lose connection
• If I say no, I lose love
• If I take up space, I get rejected

So you smile.
You over-explain.
You agree when you mean no.

Not because you are weak.
Because your nervous system chose survival.

Boundaries are hard when your body still believes conflict equals abandonment.

This is not about willpower.
It is about regulation.

When your system feels safe, your voice returns.
When your breath slows, your truth rises.
When your spine strengthens, your no becomes clear.

You are not “bad at boundaries.”
You were protecting yourself.

Comment SAFE and I’ll send you my YouTube series on Fawning, the Nervous System, and Kundalini Yoga.

We got this,
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/21/2026

“YOU USED TO BE SO EASY GOING.”
No. I used to abandon myself to keep you comfortable.

Let’s tell the truth.

You weren’t easy going.
You were dysregulated.
You were scanning the room.
You were adjusting your tone.
You were swallowing your no.

That wasn’t peace.
That was fawning.

When you stop over-accommodating, people feel it.
When you stop over-explaining, people react.
When you set a boundary, you get called “different.”

You are different.

You’re no longer negotiating your nervous system for approval.
You’re no longer trading self-respect for connection.
You’re no longer teaching people that your limits don’t matter.

If someone says you’ve changed, take it as data.
Growth often feels inconvenient to the people who benefited from your silence.

Your calm is not compliance.
Your softness is not submission.
Your love does not require self-erasure.

If this hits, comment SAFE and I’ll send you the full YouTube series on Fawning.

Love,
Salimah

Have you watched my series in Fawning on YouTube?

02/21/2026

When you’re fawning, you edit yourself in real time.
You soften your opinions.
You shrink your stories.
You laugh when you don’t feel like laughing.

You become “easy.”
And somewhere inside, you go numb.

But what’s really happening is disconnection.

Here’s a simple breathing pattern to help you stay present instead of disappearing:

• Inhale for 2
• Hold for 2
• Exhale for 4
• Repeat for 1 min

Longer exhales signal safety to your nervous system.
Safety helps you stay.
Staying helps you choose.

Comment SAFE and I’ll send you the link to my full YouTube series on Fawning.

Love,
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/21/2026

When you’re fawning, you edit yourself in real time.
You soften your opinions.
You shrink your stories.
You laugh when you don’t feel like laughing.

You become “easy.”
And somewhere inside, you go numb.

But what’s really happening is disconnection.

Here’s a simple breathing pattern to help you stay present instead of disappearing:

• Inhale for 2
• Hold for 2
• Exhale for 4
• Repeat for 1 minutes

Longer exhales signal safety to your nervous system.
Safety helps you stay.
Staying helps you get honest.

Comment SAFE and I’ll send you the link to my full YouTube series on Fawning.

Love,
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/20/2026

Dearest one, a fawn response is not consent.

If you froze.
If you smiled to stay safe.
If you said yes because no felt dangerous.
If you went along with something to avoid escalation.

That was your nervous system protecting you.

Fawning is a survival response. It sits beside fight, flight, and freeze. It shows up when your body calculates that appeasing someone lowers the threat.

That is not weakness.
That is adaptation.

Shame grows when you replay the moment and judge yourself for not speaking up.
Guilt grows when you tell yourself you “should have known better.”

Pause there.

Your body chose safety over conflict. Your system chose connection over harm. That choice kept you intact in the moment.

Coercion is about pressure, power, fear, and imbalance.
Consent requires clarity, capacity, and freedom.

If freedom was not present, consent was not present.

You do not need to carry responsibility for surviving.

Healing begins when you:
• Name the fawn response without blame
• Learn your early body signals
• Practice small, safe no’s
• Build nervous system regulation

You are not broken. You were protecting yourself.

If this resonates, comment SAFE and I’ll send you my full YouTube series on Fawning.

Together we rise.
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/20/2026

If I wasn’t afraid of hurting your feelings, here’s what I would say.

Fawning is not kindness.
It’s fear dressed up as compassion.

You call it being mature.
You call it being spiritual.
You call it taking the high road.

But your body is tight.
Your jaw clenches.
You replay conversations at night.

As a yoga therapist, I see this every week.

Fawning is a nervous system survival pattern.
It starts when love felt conditional.
When approval meant safety.
When conflict meant danger.

So you learned to:
• Soften your truth
• Over-explain
• Take responsibility for other people’s emotions
• Apologize for needs
• Smile when you want to scream

And then you wonder why you feel resentful, invisible, exhausted.

Your nervous system does not need more “positivity.”
It needs safety.
It needs regulation.
It needs practice telling the truth in small, steady ways.

This is not about becoming harsh.
It’s about becoming honest.

Your children are watching how you self-abandon.
Your relationships are built on what you tolerate.

Healing fawning changes everything.

If you’re ready to see yourself clearly, comment SAFE and I’ll send you the free YouTube series.

Love,
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/19/2026

Sitting with discomfort is an art and a science.

Most of us were never taught how to do it.
We were taught to smooth things over.
To keep the peace.
To read the room.
To make sure everyone else felt okay.

That is the fawn response.

When you cannot tolerate discomfort in your body, you abandon yourself to manage someone else’s emotions.

But here is the shift.

Discomfort is data.
Discomfort is nervous system activation.
Discomfort is the doorway to boundaries, truth, and self-trust.

The art is staying present.
The science is regulating your nervous system so you do not collapse into overgiving.

This is the work.

Comment SAFE and I will send the full fawning series straight to your DMs. You will learn how to sit with the discomfort so you can reclaim your authenticity and your identity.

Love
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/19/2026

used to call it generosity.
I thought I was being loving. Supportive. Mature.

But underneath it, I was exhausted.

I was saying yes when I meant no.
Overgiving.
Anticipating needs before anyone asked.
Trying to stay ahead of conflict.

And then the resentment started to grow.

Because what I was pouring out wasn’t coming back to me.
Not care. Not effort. Not reciprocity.

That’s when I had to face the truth.
It wasn’t kindness.
It was my nervous system trying to stay safe.

Fawning looks soft.
But inside, it creates anger, distance, and self-abandonment.

When you recognize it, everything changes.
You stop performing.
You start choosing.

If this hits close to home, go watch my full series on Fawning on YouTube.

Comment SAFE and I’ll send you the link.

With love,
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/18/2026

You call it being generous.
But your body calls it survival.

Fawning shows up as:

• Over explaining
• Over giving
• Over apologizing
• Over functioning

You become indispensable so no one leaves.
You become easy so no one gets upset.
You become helpful so no one rejects you.

And inside, you feel tired.
Resentful.
Invisible.

Over giving is a nervous system strategy.
It forms when connection once felt fragile.

Healing starts when you:

• Check your body before you say yes
• Let someone be disappointed
• Stop fixing what is not yours
• Ask for support without shrinking

You don’t need to earn love through exhaustion.

If this sounds familiar, comment SAFE and I’ll send you the link to my full YouTube series on Fawning, the Nervous System and Kundalini Yoga.

Together we rise,
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

Did you know that Fawning is a nervous system response?

02/18/2026

Over giving is not generosity.
It’s fear of losing connection.

If you feel exhausted after being “the strong one”
If you say yes before checking your body
If you give support you secretly wish someone would give you

Pause.

Your body learned that love equals self-abandonment.
Your system learned that safety comes from pleasing.

You don’t need to give more to be worthy.
You need safety.
You need boundaries.
You need to receive.

Healing fawning means:

• Noticing when your yes is a trauma reflex
• Letting silence feel uncomfortable without filling it
• Allowing others to hold their own emotions
• Choosing rest over approval

You are allowed to exist without earning your place.

If this lands, comment SAFE and I’ll send you the link to my YouTube series on fawning.

Love,
Salimah
Yoga Therapist

02/17/2026

Fawning is not kindness.
It’s your nervous system trying to survive.

If you don’t recognize your fawn response, you will:

• Confuse self-abandonment with love
• Stay quiet when your body is saying no
• Model people-pleasing as safety to your children

This work matters for two reasons.
1. Know yourself.
When you name your fawn response, you stop shaming yourself. You start regulating your body. You build real self-trust.
2. Protect your children.
Children learn boundaries by watching you. If you override your needs, they learn to override theirs. If you hold your ground, they learn safety and self-respect.

Awareness is protection. For you. For them.

Comment SAFE and I’ll send you the link to my full YouTube series on fawning.

Let’s learn together.

Salimah
Yoga Therapist

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