What happens when you’ve spent so much of your life surviving that you no longer know who you are without the struggle?

In this raw, insightful, and deeply human conversation, Victory sits down with Lisa Lacy—writer, trauma educator, and author of Notes From a Certified Madwoman—to explore the hidden cost of high-functioning survival.

After decades of navigating trauma, addiction, psychosis, recovery, identity masking, and reinvention, Lisa shares what she’s learned about the stories we tell ourselves, the masks we wear to get through life, and the courage it takes to stop performing strength and start living authentically.

Together, they discuss trauma, nervous systems, emotional healing, recovery, identity, and why true healing begins when we stop asking how to survive and start asking how to live.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

* How survival mode can become part of your identity

* The hidden realities of high-functioning trauma

* Why many people struggle to stop performing strength

* The role of storytelling in healing and self-discovery

* How recovery goes beyond simply getting through the day

* What it means to reinvent yourself after life’s hardest seasons

This episode is a powerful reminder that you are more than what happened to you—and that survival was never meant to be your final destination.

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📞 Connect with Lisa Lacy

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Lisa Lacy Official Website⁠

Learn more about Lisa’s upcoming memoir Notes From a Certified Madwoman, her writing, speaking engagements, and resources focused on trauma, recovery, identity, and personal transformation.

Guest: Lisa Lacy

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