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Notes From a Madwoman: Transforming Survival Adaptations to Healthy Coping
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Survival can make you brilliant at coping and it can also quietly steal your identity. We sit down with writer and trauma educator Lisa Lacy to talk about the gap between looking “high-functioning” and actually feeling well, especially for women conditioned to be good, productive, and pleasing even when they’re drowning inside. Lisa shares how repeated near-death medical crises and turning 50 forced a hard truth: you can’t keep going back to the old script and call it strength.
We get specific about what “high-functioning survival” looks like in real…
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