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Alignment Isn’t a Vibe, It’s a Practice
Season 2 Episode 70
Survival mode gets rewarded—until your body, marriage, and joy send the bill. Lara shares the cost of high-functioning pain (multiple miscarriages, misaligned marriage, radical redirection) and how c…
Published on 7 hours ago
Autopilot Isn't Peace
Season 2 Episode 69
Survival mode looks different on everyone—but it often sounds like autopilot. Gemma’s body forced a full stop (transverse myelitis) after years of people-pleasing and “doing it all.” In that pause, s…
Published on 8 hours ago
Nine Lives, One Mission
Season 2 Episode 68
Vitelle knows survival mode too well—single motherhood, abuse, homelessness, “doing fine” while burning out. She breaks down how faith, community, and creativity pulled her from coping to healing. Th…
Published on 8 hours ago
Love With Nowhere To Go: Grief That Remakes You
Season 2 Episode 67
Grief bulldozed Mehr’s life. Sudden loss. Identity shattered. Three kids watching. She went silent, overfunctioned, and called it strength until her body said otherwise. Stress-induced asthma. Emotio…
Published on 8 hours ago
Gaslit, Sober, Unapologetic
Season 2 Episode 66
Jacquie grew up inside generational trauma and religious shame, was sexually abused as a child, gaslit into doubting her sanity, and later numbed the pain through addiction. She got sober, lost custo…
Published on 8 hours ago
When Success Isn't Enough
Season 2 Episode 65
From military discipline to spiritual surrender — John Templeton’s story is proof that achievement without alignment leads straight to collapse. After years of thriving as a Special Forces instructor…
Published on 1 week ago
You Don’t Have to Endure to Be Worthy
Season 2 Episode 64
In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Candice Harper unpacks the emotional abandonment, reactive abuse, and generational trauma that shaped her life — and how she found the courage to rewrite it. Fro…
Published on 1 week ago
The Death Before the Rebirth
Season 2 Episode 63
From addiction and bipolar disorder to building one of the most powerful Black male mental health movements in America — George P. Brooks has lived the full spectrum of survival and resurrection. He …
Published on 1 week ago
War, Anger, Sobriety, and Starting Again
Season 2 Episode 62
What happens when survival becomes your identity. Sean Young grew up inside violence, entered the Army at 17, deployed four times, lost his best friend overseas, and spiraled into addiction and rage …
Published on 1 week ago
Building a Garden After the Storm
Season 2 Episode 61
This episode dives deep into the hidden cost of survival mode and how unhealed childhood trauma quietly dictates how we love, parent, and perceive ourselves. Jamie shares his story of losing his moth…
Published on 1 week ago