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Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer

2026-09-17 · 46 min · episode 101 · 20 entities

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    Link in episode "Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer": https://lisalacy.com/
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    Link in episode "Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer": https://lightwithincollective.co.za/

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    Link in episode "Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer": https://lightwithincollective.co.za/
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    Link in episode "Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer": https://lightwithincollective.co.za/

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  • mentioned lisalacy.com website
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    Link in episode "Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer": https://lisalacy.com/
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    Link in episode "Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer": https://lisalacy.com/

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  • appeared on Notes from the Edge podcast
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    Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer
Episode description as stored
What if the traits you think are your personality are actually things you learned to do to survive? Simone Bowyer is a writer and founder of The Light Within Collective , whose work explores what she calls the “language of survival,” the patterns we develop to feel safe, loved, worthy, and less likely to be abandoned. In this conversation, Simone and I talk about perfectionism, hyper-independence, control, and overachievement as survival adaptations rather than simply personality traits. She shares her experience with severe treatment-resistant depression, years of psychiatric treatment, and ultimately electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, which she describes not as a cure, but as something that finally created enough space for her to consider life beyond the darkness. We also take the conversation into the workplace, exploring why we cannot simply leave our wounds at home, what human-centered leadership can look like, and why psychological safety matters when the person who appears to be your highest performer may actually have a nervous system that never learned it was safe to stop. In this episode: • How childhood trauma can become perfectionism, people-pleasing, control, and hyper-independence • Treatment-resistant depression and Simone’s experience with ECT • Why recovery does not erase survival patterns overnight • Performing worth in order to feel lovable and avoid abandonment • Trauma, the nervous system, and high achievement • Psychological safety and human-centered leadership in the workplace • Why healing is not linear and does not have a timeline • Simone’s book, Chasing Light , and finding color again after years of depression • Moving from asking “What is wrong with me?” to asking “What did I learn to do to survive?” Connect with Simone Bowyer: The Light Within Collective https://lightwithincollective.co.za Connect with Lisa Lacy: https://lisalacy.com What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the Edge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .