In this gripping and deeply vulnerable conversation, Kelly shares her 61-year journey through survival mode — from childhood trauma to parentification, infertility, cancer, widowhood, raising a special-needs child alone, and ultimately surviving a rare autoimmune disease that nearly claimed her life. She opens up about her addiction to chaos, how trauma became her home base, how she built a $6M autism school from her basement, and the heartbreaking moment her body forced her to stop running by shutting down completely. This episode is a masterclass in self-awareness, reprogramming your trauma responses, and reinventing your identity after life strips everything away. You will walk away seeing survival mode in a completely different way — and with a renewed understanding of what healing truly looks like.

• Being “born into” survival mode
• Parentification at age 9 & growing up in chaos
• Living with an alcoholic mother and a raging father
• Infertility, date rape, ovarian cancer & grief
• Adopting a daughter with autism — then becoming a widow at 40
• Building a multimillion-dollar school… while drowning internally
• The body’s breaking point — and her near-death crisis in 2023
• Losing her entire identity: career, community, purpose & health
• Learning to regulate her nervous system without numbing
• The addiction to chaos that trauma survivors don’t recognize
• Rewiring survival mode: “Okay Chad, we don’t think like that anymore.”
• Reinvention after medical retirement & reclaiming purpose

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