Survival Mode Disrupted with Leticia R Francis
Episodes
He Left Her With $5 in the Bank: Betrayal, Survival Mode & Starting Over
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Karen Paolicelli shares the reality of survival mode inside a long-term abusive marriage — not just the “big...
The Straight-A Student in Survival Mode: Trauma, Performance & Reinvention
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Juanae Crockwell shares how survival mode began for her at just 15 years old after a sexual assau...
On the Run for a Decade: Survival Mode, Exoneration & Becoming Free
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Kristell Miles shares her extraordinary story of living in survival mode for decades — includin...
Survival Mode Starts Young: Teen Dating Violence, Boundaries & Breaking the Cycle
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply honest episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Natasha Ickes joins Leticia to unpack how survival mode often begins in adolescence — long...
Consent to Some Is Not Consent to All: Teen Dating Violence & Survival Mode
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful Season 3 opener of Survival Mode Disrupted, Dan Roth joins Leticia to unpack teen dating violence from a perspective we rarely hear —...
SEASON TWO FINALE: Conforming Is Survival Mode: Spiritual Awakening, Masks + Liberation
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this soul-level conversation, Bill Pautler joins Leticia to redefine survival mode as conforming to the world instead of being attuned to yourself....
Survival Mode Is About Safety: Trauma, Immigration + Reclaiming Your Voice
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rosa Casquino joins Leticia to unpack survival mode through the lens of trauma, culture, and community healing. As a Peruvian immigrant and survivor h...
Held Underwater: How Survival Mode Numbs Your Whole Life
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mitch Webb breaks down what survival mode actually looks like in the body — and why so many people spend decades chasing “root causes” without r...
Survival Mode Isn’t Just Trauma… Sometimes It’s a Diagnosis
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Georges Cordova shares his survival-mode story through a decade-long battle with advanced melanoma, including multiple surgeries and brain tumors. He ...
Grief Turned Me Into a Robot… Until Hope Crept Back In
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Henderson shares the raw reality of what survival mode looks like after losing a child — not the polished version, the real one. In this episo...
She Called Me a Liar: The Mother Wound That Lasted 30 Years
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ronda’s story is raw, heartbreaking, and deeply relatable for anyone carrying a mother wound. At 17, she was sexually assaulted by her mother’s bo...
You Are Not What Happened to You
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw and disruptive conversation, Tracy shares her story of growing up in severe dysfunction — from childhood abuse, neglect, and emotional i...
61 Years in Survival Mode: Kelly’s Story of Chaos, Loss & Reinvention
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this gripping and deeply vulnerable conversation, Kelly shares her 61-year journey through survival mode — from childhood trauma to parentificati...
Living in Love After Living in Survival
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful, vulnerable episode, Colinda takes us through her story to and through survival mode—from being the youngest of six in a tiny north...
From Pills to Plant Power: Honey’s 60-Year Exit from Survival Mode
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw and unfiltered conversation, Honey shares how she spent most of her life in chronic survival mode—anxious, exhausted, over-medicated, an...
How Losing His Mother Sent Him Into Survival Mode
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply human episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Leticia sits down with Gerald “RunRev” Collins, who takes us inside the darkest season of...
From Cliffhanger to Calm: The Neuroscience of Survival Mode
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw, deeply educational episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Leticia sits down with somatic psychotherapist Suzy Butts to unpack the neuroscien...
From Grandmother’s Love to Adult Survival Mode
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, I’m joined by relationship coach & mentor, Terraine, a man who was raised by his grandmother, reunit...
Psychedelics, PTSD & a Mother’s Betrayal
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw, unflinching episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, I’m joined by Dr. Dawnmarie Risley-Childs—a board-certified psychiatrist and survivor...
Conquering Internal Resistance in Survival Mode
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, I sit down with mentor, international speaker and author of a dozen books, Kam Knight, to dismantle one of...
Designing Your Existence After Survival Mode
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Survival mode doesn’t always look like chaos on the outside — sometimes it looks like the “strong one,” the over-functioning one, the one who ...
Surviving 100+ Electroconvulsive Treatments
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is not light. It’s not soft. And it’s not going to let you sit comfortably behind your assumptions about mental health treatment. Lis...
Feeling Is the Healing
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🔥 Summary:In this soul-shaking episode, Leticia sits down with Lena, a speaker and emotional intelligence consultant whose entire life shifted thre...
Healing the “I’m Only Worthy If I’m Achieving” Wound
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw conversation, Leticia sits down with Giada, a marketing message strategist and mentor who helps women entrepreneurs own their brilliance a...
How ‘Little’ Wounds Keep You Stuck in Survival Mode
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Leticia sits down with spiritual coach and psychic Tracy Fance, who proves that trauma isn’t always loud...
Healing Survival Mode Through Past Life Regression
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Leticia sits down with Craig Harry, a hypnotherapist who works at the intersection of clinical hypnosis, p...
Hit by Two 18-Wheelers & Still Standing
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Leticia sits down with LaCole Smith, a woman who has literally survived what most of us only fear in our n...
You Are Not the Supporting Character
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Leticia sits down with Stephany, a woman who has lived through the kind of plot twists most peopl...
You Can’t Parent From a Place You Never Healed
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Leticia sits down with Anne Alvarez, a parent coach and school counselor who grew up in a deeply ...
From Six-Month Death Sentences to a Life of Purpose
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Leticia sits down with Tom Le Noble, a man who has been given six months to live three times and is still ...
When the Battle Ends but the Breakdown Begins
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Veronika was diagnosed with breast cancer, she didn’t ask, “Why me?” She said, “I’m going to heal.” Armed with mindset tools, radical...
Breaking the Energy of Old Beliefs
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the age of four, Margie was taught that her voice didn’t matter. What began as survival in a home filled with narcissistic, emotional, and sexu...
When Grief, DV & Single Motherhood Collide
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the outside, Erin looked “together.” Inside, she was running on fumes—grief, DV recovery, single motherhood, and years of crisis conditioni...
Raised in Chaos, Rewired for Peace
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reign’s childhood normalized abuse, control, and emotional suppression—so she dissociated to survive. As an adult, she chose radical responsibilit...
Learning Disabilities, Advocacy & Life Beyond Survival
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle was diagnosed with a learning disability in kindergarten, bullied in a small school where she couldn’t “hide,” and told college wasn’...
Alignment Isn’t a Vibe, It’s a Practice
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Survival mode gets rewarded—until your body, marriage, and joy send the bill. Lara shares the cost of high-functioning pain (multiple miscarriages, ...
Autopilot Isn't Peace
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Survival mode looks different on everyone—but it often sounds like autopilot. Gemma’s body forced a full stop (transverse myelitis) after years of...
Nine Lives, One Mission
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vitelle knows survival mode too well—single motherhood, abuse, homelessness, “doing fine” while burning out. She breaks down how faith, communit...
Love With Nowhere To Go: Grief That Remakes You
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Grief bulldozed Mehr’s life. Sudden loss. Identity shattered. Three kids watching. She went silent, overfunctioned, and called it strength until her...
Gaslit, Sober, Unapologetic
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jacquie grew up inside generational trauma and religious shame, was sexually abused as a child, gaslit into doubting her sanity, and later numbed the ...
When Success Isn't Enough
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From military discipline to spiritual surrender — John Templeton’s story is proof that achievement without alignment leads straight to collapse. A...
You Don’t Have to Endure to Be Worthy
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Candice Harper unpacks the emotional abandonment, reactive abuse, and generational trauma that shaped her life —...
The Death Before the Rebirth
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From addiction and bipolar disorder to building one of the most powerful Black male mental health movements in America — George P. Brooks has lived ...
War, Anger, Sobriety, and Starting Again
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when survival becomes your identity. Sean Young grew up inside violence, entered the Army at 17, deployed four times, lost his best frien...
Building a Garden After the Storm
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode dives deep into the hidden cost of survival mode and how unhealed childhood trauma quietly dictates how we love, parent, and perceive our...
Raised on Dysfunction, Dressed as Tradition
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Born into survival mode, Maz Alexander spent decades navigating emotional neglect, sexual abuse, religious manipulation, and toxic cultural norms mask...
The Goode Fight Begins Within
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twelve years ago, Demetria’s ex-husband brutally beat and stabbed her. Months later, she nearly ended her life — until a small voice and a bigger ...
Using Pain on Purpose
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coach Latrea grew up navigating disability, hospitals, and a home shaped by addiction. Survival mode taught her to aim for “just get through today.”...
I Survived Columbine
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi was a sophomore studying in the library when smoke, alarms, and gunfire split her world in two. She describes the moment-by-moment terror, the y...
The Rest of Your Life Can Be the Best of Your Life
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This one is fire and truth. Jeremy walks us through surviving childhood molestation, parental addiction, rage, and repeat suicide attempts, then shows...
Prepared For War Yet Met With Love
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Survival wasn’t a phase for Frankco, it was the air he breathed. Abusive home. Public bullying. “Pick a struggle” became “I had all of them.”...
The Audacity To Be Authentic
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bermuda raised her. Purpose pulled her. In this episode, Desta walks us through leaving a 21-square-mile comfort zone for engineering school in Toront...
The Day I Stopped Dying Quietly
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is not here to perform strength. She is here to tell the truth. Molested at 7. Silence, fights, and promiscuity by 13. A teenage pregn...
The Fight From Grooming To Grace PART 2
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This powerful conclusion tracks Mickey’s path through Drug Treatment Court, relapse, jail sanctions, a high-risk pregnancy, and the moment surrender...
The Fight From Grooming To Grace
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mickey pulls the mask off survival mode and names what too many of us were trained to hide: grooming, child sexual abuse, manipulation, addiction, hom...
Owning Your ‘Too Much’ and Never Apologizing Again
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is not a surface-level chat about “moving on.” This is survival mode, cracked wide open. Darla Illa shares the raw truth about growing up in ...
Sleeping in a Prius, Dreaming Bigger
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leticia sits down with Jonathan Simos for a deeply honest conversation about what it really means to survive, pivot, and thrive as an entrepreneur. Fr...
Why You Stayed, Why You Snapped, Why You’re Still Healing
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this brutally honest episode, Jessica Perini shares how unresolved childhood trauma and codependency led her into the grip of narcissistic abuse. T...
When Love Is a Lie: Recognizing the Hidden Signs of Abuse
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this soul-shaking conversation, Leticia sits down with Rachel Lemon to expose the insidious nature of psychological and emotional abuse—and what ...
Reclaiming Identity After Postpartum Survival Mode
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this vulnerable and empowering episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Ali shares her honest journey through postpartum depression, identity loss, and ...
When Chaos Feels Like Home
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply honest episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Dawn shares her powerful story of early abuse, emotional chaos, and the physical and relatio...
Reconnecting to Self After S*xual Trauma
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this soul-stirring episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Astra joins Leticia to dive deep into what it really means to heal—not just mentally, but ...
When the Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, I sit down with Cari, a survivor whose story will stop you in your tracks. She shares the deeply ...
You Are the MF Frequency
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode isn’t about trauma. It’s about TRUTH.Kristen Clark doesn’t just disrupt survival mode—she detonates it.Together, we dive deep int...
Losing 150 Pounds… and Finding Herself Again
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Monica’s journey is one of radical reclamation—from silent suffering to powerful rebirth. After losing a child, supporting a husband with a trauma...
Success Without Peace: The High-Achiever’s Survival Trap
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley’s story will gut-punch every high-achieving woman who’s still stuck in the loop of “do more, be more, achieve more.” From Ivy League pr...
When ‘Stable’ Becomes Soul-Sucking
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Watt didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. She set out to breathe. After 11 years in public service, workplace stress, panic attacks, and soul...
How ‘Firm Foundations’ Was Built on Brokenness
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when fear becomes your comfort zone? For Carolyn J. Murphy, that fear started in early childhood—and ruled her life for decades. In thi...
You Only Have to a Step Ahead
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when trauma rewires your identity before you even know who you are? In this raw and radically honest episode, Sue Bowles shares her journ...
When You Can’t Afford to Heal: Survival Mode’s Sneakiest Trap
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Burke gets real about the unspoken survival mode millions of women live in—where the biggest trauma isn’t one moment, but the daily grind...
Somatic Healing, Self-Betrayal & Starting Over
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brie’s story is one of emotional honesty, layered trauma, and radical relocation—from domestic violence in New York to healing in Spain. As a soma...
The Dysfunctional Dance: Narcissists, Empaths & Trauma Bonds
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this fierce, soul-shaking episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Dr. Rita Louise helps us decode the hidden trauma bond between narcissists and empath...
From Incest to Impact
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of the most powerful conversations we’ve ever had. In this episode, Sadia Carone unpacks her survival story with unfiltered truth, gut-w...
Escaping the Cult, Reclaiming the Self
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This powerful episode is a full-body exhale for every woman who's been told to "just move on" while silently unraveling inside. Martha shares her harr...
Survival Isn’t Success: The Cost of Ignoring Your Intuition
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a masterclass in self-trust, intuitive discernment, and the hidden survival patterns even the “successful” women are stuck in. Ani...
Miscarriage, Manipulation & Misalignment
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when your life looks fine on the outside—but you’re dying inside?Tracey Gromenz shares her raw journey from ignoring the pit in her...
Why High Achievers Crash
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the version of you that "has it all together" starts to crumble? Jacqueline Young joins Leticia to unpack how childhood trauma morph...
From Great Dane Attack to Great Awakening
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chelsea didn’t just survive an attack—she survived the grief of losing the life she had before it.What began as a tragic dog attack became a full-...
How She Escaped the Fight-or-Flight Loop
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this soul-deep episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Sivani walks us through the unfiltered truth of healing from chronic trauma. From gut-wrenching ...
Strong Black Woman? Or Silently Drowning?
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw, tell-it-all episode, Shanti Refuge peels back the layers of pain, pressure, and generational programming that led to her 2018 breakdown—...
What Radical Ownership Really Looks Like After Trauma
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Schaefer doesn’t just talk about surviving—she embodies what it means to reclaim power after a lifetime of chaos. From childhood abuse and a...
The Hidden Pattern Keeping You Stuck in Survival Mode
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Survival mode isn’t just trauma-driven—it’s the quiet autopilot life where emotions, thoughts, and actions run on repeat. In this electrifying e...
Healing Complex Trauma with Compassion
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the parts of you that you hate… are the very parts that saved your life?In this soul-healing episode, Leticia sits down with trauma therapis...
Surviving the Quiet Side of DV
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Regina Hiremath stayed in a toxic marriage for 23 years—navigating narcissistic abuse, generational trauma, and the quiet devastation of survival mo...
When Chaos Feels Like Home: Daria's Story
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This isn’t just a story—it’s a reckoning. Daria shares her unfiltered journey from early abandonment, generational trauma, and toxic home dynami...
Blame Is a Drug. Healing Starts When You Quit
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dallas Carlos joins Leticia to unravel one of the deepest roots of survival mode: the story we keep telling ourselves. From addiction and trauma to ra...
From Silence to Power: Breaking Generational Trauma
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a raw, gut-wrenching journey through generational trauma, cultural silence, and the radical choice to heal out loud. Lillian shares ho...
Homeless, Broke, and Obedient
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Dockrell Brown’s story is a masterclass in radical obedience. She had the six-figure job, the Miami high-rise, and the polished LinkedIn profi...
It Wasn’t Just the Trauma. It Was Being Dismissed
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra’s story is a chilling yet powerful reminder of how survival mode isn’t just about what happened to you—it’s about how the world respond...
The Cost of Being Alienated from Your Kids
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode cuts deep. Marissa Conway—emergency room nurse, mother, and now author—shares the brutal truth about how parental alienation ripped h...
Survival Mode vs. Midlife Crisis
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the burnout you’re living through isn’t just a phase—but a physics problem? In this groundbreaking conversation, Peter shares how he wen...
Motherless, Not Loveless
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the absence of a mother shapes your entire identity? In this deeply personal and powerfully reflective episode, Luisa shares her jou...
Three Times Cancer Tried, Three Times She Fought Back
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you survive cancer—but still feel like you’re dying inside? Casey Kang has stared death in the face more times than most, but he...
Scammed Twice, Still Standing
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a scam is so subtle, so sophisticated, that even the most cautious woman falls for it—not once, but twice? In this raw and reveali...
Finding Peace After Trauma
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Desi shares her powerful journey of overcoming childhood trauma, including abuse and neglect, and how she found healing through her 'Triggered by Trau...
Survival Mode in Waves
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
LaTerra Wise brings truth with tenderness and fire with faith. In this raw and redemptive episode, she unpacks what it means to survive trauma in wave...
Surviving COVID Wasn’t the Hardest Part
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After surviving a harrowing battle with COVID that nearly took his life, Martin returned to find that the real war was only just beginning. From toxic...
Silent Systems, Shattered Bones
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa’s story isn’t one of passive survival—it’s one of ruthless advocacy and soul-shattering grief. When her son—a nonverbal, medically f...
Groomed by God’s Representative
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is not a “church hurt” story. It’s a raw, unfiltered revelation of what happens when spiritual leaders groom vulnerable teens under...
This Is What I’ve Been Preparing You For
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw and soul-shaking episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Cristina shares the kind of story that makes you stop, breathe, and believe again. Fr...