64 - 6 Things I Thought Were My Personality (But Were Actually Survival Mode)

The Real Work with Maggie Sterling · Nov 12, 2026 · 23m

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I've been keeping a list of everything I thought was my personality that turned out to be survival mode. In this video I share six of them and what changed as my nervous system came out of years of chronic stress and anxiety.

For a long time I said I hated Disneyland, that I wasn't a movie person, and that I had no time for anything "frivolous." I believed those things were just who I was. If you've been living in survival mode, a lot of what…