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.

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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

If you're living with PTS, chronic stress, or burnout, this episode will challenge what you think is "wrong" with you.

You are not broken.
You adapted.

In this powerful conversation, Elizabeth Meigs unpacks how trauma quietly reshapes belief systems, identity, and behavior. The patterns you call flaws were often built for survival. The self-blame? It grew in places where safety was missing.

But what was built for protection can become the very thing that keeps you stuck.

Drawing from trauma-informed practice, neuroscience, and biblical truth, Elizabeth explains how beliefs formed in pain become internal narratives—and how those narratives can be shifted. Not through pressure. Not through hype. But through repetition of steady truth.

Because belief doesn't change in one emotional moment.
It changes through consistency.

You'll learn:

Why you're not broken—you adapted

How trauma-based beliefs shape identity

Why walls built for safety can block healing

How God rebuilds from the inside out

Why daily affirmations retrain belief over time

This episode closes with a prayer for healing, courage, and the strength to step into who you were truly created to be.

If this message speaks to you, subscribe to Elizabeth's Daily Affirmations Text Subscription and begin reinforcing new belief every single day—steady truth that rebuilds from the inside out.

Your voice matters.
You are chosen.
And small, intentional steps lead to freedom

Chapters

00:00 Understanding Beliefs and Trauma
05:40 How belief forms after trauma
08:59 Scripture: the battle of belief
11:01 Walls of self-preservation
11:14 The Journey of Healing and Adaptation
12:23 The new belief

In this powerful episode, Certified Trauma-Informed Practitioner and resilience strategist Elizabeth Meigs dismantles the lie of failure and exposes what is really happening beneath the surface: survival.

Drawing from her lived experience of surviving a traumatic brain injury at fourteen and rebuilding her identity from the inside out, Elizabeth explains how trauma reshapes the nervous system, distorts identity, and creates protective survival patterns that often look like procrastination, withdrawal, overworking, or emotional shutdown.

This conversation unpacks:

• The difference between failure and hiding
• How trauma impacts identity and self-perception
• Why awareness is the first step toward healing
• The nervous system's role in survival patterns
• The power of safe community in restoration
• How to begin taking small, sustainable steps toward healing

Elizabeth reminds listeners that what feels like weakness is often evidence of resilience. You are not broken. You adapted. And adaptation means strength.

If you've ever questioned your worth, your progress, or your ability to move forward, this episode will give you language for what you've lived — and a grounded path toward rebuilding.

You are not alone. And you are not failing.

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Chapters

00:00 You're Not Failing—You're Hiding to Survive: Understanding Survival Mode
00:45 The Truth Most People Miss
02:22 When Identity Was Taken
04:33 The Smile That Saved Me
05:37 Survival Responses — Not Personality Flaws
07:35 Covered vs. Hiding
09:00 The Promise That Saved My Life
11:22 Twelve Years of Rebuilding
12:24 The Second Test
14:20 The Wilderness Is Formation
15:20 The Shift
16:29 If This Feels Personal