About Live Your Best Life With Sirisha Padmasekhar
The Avocado Feeling, Hosted by Sirisha Padmasekhar (@sirisha.padmasekhar)
Each week, Sirisha peels back the layers of what it really means to evolve, not just in your career or habits, but in your mind, heart, and identity. Through raw solo episodes, reflective storytelling, and deep dives into the patterns that shape us, she explores topics like burnout, self-worth, overthinking, rebuilding after rejection, and the art of simply being. Tune in every week for slow growth, emotional honesty, and the reminder that you're not alone on this journey.
In this conversation, Sirisha explores the concept of fawning as a lesser-known survival response alongside fight, flight, and freeze. She shares her personal journey of recognizing how childhood experiences shaped her fawning behavior in adult relationships, leading to anxiety and self-abandonment. Sirisha discusses the physiological responses of the nervous system to emotional threats and offers strategies for healing, including self-awareness, boundary-setting, and reparenting the inner child.takeaways
Fawning is a survival response that many people experience.
Childhood experiences shape our emotional responses in adulthood.
The nervous system reacts to emotional threats as if they are physical dangers.
Fawning can lead to anxiety and self-abandonment in relationships.
Awareness of our responses is the first step to healing.
Setting boundaries is essential for self-care.
Reparenting the inner child can help in healing.
Fawning is not a weakness, but a learned survival strategy.
Healing involves teaching the nervous system a new story.
You're not broken; you're just human.
"This is called fawning."
"My body was choosing safety."
"That's how we love."
Sound Bites Chapters
00:00 Understanding Fawning: A Hidden Survival Response
02:55 The Impact of Childhood on Adult Relationships
06:09 Recognizing and Healing Fawning Responses
keywords: fawning, survival response, emotional health, childhood trauma, relationship dynamics, self-awareness, healing, nervous system, boundaries, inner child
27 Jul 2025
When distance becomes an answer
Who knew a non dramatic exit would still sting. Let me know if this resonates. See you next week. If you are new here, maybe follow?
23 Jul 2025
Why I Avoid the Things I Care About?
I want to be consistent. I want to show up. But somehow, the moment something matters , I avoid it.
In this episode, I open up about my personal struggle with consistency. From cleaning the house before exams to rewatching old shows when I should be preparing for a job interview. I’ve noticed a pattern. One that looks like productivity, but is really just avoidance.
I talk about growing up in India, where achievement was everything. Where I learned that love and praise came after success, not before. And how that “good girl” conditioning, the pressure to be perfect, made it hard for me to try at all unless I felt 100% ready.
Together, we’ll unpack why consistency can feel unsafe, how our nervous system protects us by distracting us, and what I’m trying to do now, slowly to rebuild trust with myself.
This episode is for the quiet overachievers, the chronic avoiders, the ones who care deeply but freeze when it matters. You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re just human, and you’re not alone.
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