Lessons for Lisa: Notes to My Future Self is a reflective solo series under the Notes From the Edge podcast umbrella.

These aren’t lectures.

They aren’t polished TED Talks.

They’re honest conversations with the woman I’m still becoming.

Each episode is a letter to my future self, exploring the lessons I’m learning in real time about healing, identity, recovery, relationships, resilience, and what it means to keep choosing growth over performance.

In Episode 001, The Hidden Cost of Keeping Score, I explore the emotional ledger so many of us carry.

The people who never apologized.

The conversations we keep replaying.

The betrayals we can’t seem to release.

The silent calculations that quietly steal our peace.

What if letting go isn’t about saying what happened was okay?

What if it isn’t permission, approval, or forgetting?

What if it’s simply deciding that yesterday no longer gets to write today’s story?

If you’ve ever found yourself replaying old conversations, carrying resentment, or struggling to release what someone else never acknowledged, this conversation is for you.

Welcome to Lessons for Lisa: Notes to My Future Self.

Perhaps you’ll find a few notes to your future self along the way.

Welcome to the Edge.

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Notes From the Edge is a podcast exploring trauma, psychology, identity, recovery, leadership, creativity, and what it means to be fully human through honest conversations and reflective storytelling.

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Welcome to the first episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, a new recurring series under the Notes From the Edge umbrella.

This series is where the polished masks come off. It’s part storytelling, part philosophy, part neuroscience, part marriage counseling you didn’t ask for, and occasionally… it starts with something as ridiculous as biscuits and gravy.

In this deeply personal solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores what happens when two people in recovery, both neurodivergent creatives, both living with mental health challenges, try to build a life together while carrying very different histories.

This isn’t really about biscuits and gravy.

It’s about survival, menopause, addiction and recovery, love after trauma, a 16-year age gap, living with life-threatening illness and about the strange ways ordinary disagreements uncover extraordinary truths.

Sometimes the people we love most become our greatest teachers, not because they’re easy to live with, but because they illuminate the places where we still have healing to do.

This episode is a reminder that the real conversation is almost never the one we think we’re having.

Where ordinary moments become extraordinary conversations, and where healing often begins with asking a better question.

Welcome to the Edge.

www.lisalacy.com

Why is it so hard to trust again after betrayal, even when you know the danger has passed?

In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the biology of betrayal and why healing is about so much more than “letting it go.”

Together, we’ll explore:
• Why trust is a biological prediction, not just an emotion
• What happens inside the brain and body after betrayal
• Why attachment and fear can exist at the same time
• How survival strategies become identities
• Why hypervigilance, people-pleasing, and emotional numbness are often adaptations rather than personality traits
• How trust can be rebuilt one safe experience at a time

If you’ve ever questioned yourself after infidelity, emotional abuse, manipulation, or repeated violations of trust, this conversation is for you.

You are not broken.

Your survival system has simply been trying protect you.

What did you perform in order to survive?

These are the conversations we should have been having all along.

Welcome to the Edge.

www.lisalacy.com