Edge Note: Are You Strong or Just Surviving?
2026-09-26 · 36 min · episode 111 · 13 entities
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Episode description as stored
Licensed marriage and family therapist and educator Renée Calhoun joins Lisa Lacy to unpack a deceptively simple question: when does “being strong” stop being resilience and start becoming survival mode?
In this conversation, Renée and Lisa explore why highly capable people can look successful on the outside while their nervous systems remain stuck on high alert. They talk about guilt-free rest, people pleasing, overfunctioning, emotional safety, family systems, toxic relationship patterns, and the ways trauma adaptations can become so familiar that we mistake them for personality. Renée also explains why intelligence alone can’t logic us out of relationships or behaviors our nervous systems still associate with connection and safety.
In this episode:
Trauma and nervous system survival responses
The difference between resilience and survival mode
Why high-functioning people can still be suffering
People pleasing, overfunctioning and emotional labor
Why rest can feel unsafe or uncomfortable
When trauma adaptations get mistaken for personality traits
Internal Family Systems and parts work
Emotional safety versus emotional discomfort
Toxic relationships and repeated relationship patterns
How family systems shape our earliest ideas about love and belonging
Boundaries, self-worth and learning to say no
Moving from autopilot into curiosity and conscious choice
Why healing isn’t becoming someone new, but discovering who you are when you no longer have to survive
Connect with Renée Calhoun:
https://reneecalhounlmft.com
Connect with Lisa Lacy:
https://lisalacy.com
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