The Story Your Body Tells When You're in Survival Mode

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Apr 17, 2026 · 35m

Your body has been trying to tell you something. The tension that never fully releases. The exhaustion that sleep does not fix. The hypervigilance that fires even when nothing is actually wrong. Survival mode does not announce itself — it just quietly becomes the way you live until you cannot remember what it felt like before. Dr. Randolph Schiffer has spent his career studying the intersection of fear, grief, and neurological resilience — and what he explains about why the body stays stuck in survival long after the threat has passed will change how you understand everything you have been…