The Cost of Living in Survival Mode

You survived.
But survival was never meant to be your permanent address.

In this episode, Elizabeth Meigs shares her journey from a traumatic accident that altered her nervous system and identity — to discovering healing, safety, and purpose through faith and resilience.

Trauma does not just affect memories.
It affects your nervous system.
It reshapes how safe you feel in your own body.

You'll learn:

• What survival mode actually does to the brain and body
• Why chronic stress is not sustainable
• How nervous system overload impacts identity
• Why safety is the foundation of healing
• How faith rebuilds from the inside out

This is not a story about avoiding pain.
It is about rebuilding from the inside out.

Through trauma-informed insight, lived experience, and biblical truth, Elizabeth reminds you that healing is possible, safety can be restored, and your life can overflow with purpose and peace.

You are not behind.
You are rebuilding.

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Small steps toward safety lead to lasting peace.

Resources:

30-Second Secret to Unlock Personal Peace:
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Chapters

00:00 Survival Saved You — But It Was Never Meant to Define You
00:52 What Living in Survival Mode Actually Does to the Brain
01:35 When Trauma Damages Emotional Regulation
02:29 Chronic Stress, Cortisol, and a Nervous System That Never Rests
03:32 The Breakdown That Became a Turning Point
05:15 Physiological Peace: When God Calms the Nervous System
06:09 Why Healing Is Layered — Not Instant
06:57 How Trauma Rewires the Brain Around Survival
08:00 The Identity Trauma Required vs. The Identity God Declared
09:00 Purpose Regulates the Nervous System
09:26 Seventeen Years Later: When God Positioned Protection
10:17 Positioning That Led to Protection, Provision, and Preparation
10:59 When God Spoke Audibly
12:02 Belonging: When God Is at the Center
13:07 Safe Connection Rewires the Brain
14:23 You Cannot Rescue Someone Who Won't Choose Healing
16:13 Belief Shapes Reality
17:06 Marriage, Manipulation, and Identity Stabilized
18:33 Your Dreams Are Not a Mistake
19:13 The Third Rescue: Resurrection Sunday Deliverance
21:25 Obedience Requires Movement
22:03 Protection Was an Assignment
23:23 Psalm 23 Wasn't Poetry — It Was the Path
26:43 Roadmap to Resilience™: Survival Becoming Surrender
30:11 Repeated Safety Rewires the Brain
30:54 Faith Does Not Cancel Biology — It Transforms It
31:47 Healing Begins With Safety
33:40 Survival Is Not Your Identity
34:11 A 30-Second Reset to Interrupt Survival Mode
35:22 Prayer: From Braced to Restored