What if the exhaustion, over-functioning, and constant pressure you live with isn’t your personality—but survival mode that never switched off?

In this deeply powerful episode, Rose sits down with Leticia Francis, trauma recovery mentor and author of Survival Mode Exit Plan, to explore what it truly means to exit survival mode after trauma.

Leticia shares her lived experience of teenage domestic violence and how that early trauma shaped decades of survival-based functioning—hyper-independence, emotional suppression, and identity built around coping rather than choice. Together, this conversation gently dismantles the belief that survival mode equals strength, revealing instead the hidden cost it places on the body, relationships, and sense of self.

This episode goes beyond awareness. Leticia breaks down:
• The residual impacts of unresolved trauma on the nervous system
• How survival identities form and why they’re so hard to release
• The three distinct phases of exiting survival mode, and what each requires

You’ll hear why healing isn’t about “fixing yourself,” why high-achieving women often stay stuck the longest, and how reclaiming truth, ease, and power begins with understanding your survival patterns—without shame.

This is an honest, grounded, trauma-informed conversation for anyone who has lived through adversity and wonders why life still feels heavy long after the danger has passed.

✨ CONNECT WITH LETICIA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticia-f/

Website: https://www.leticiareneefrancis.com

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