In this soul-level conversation, Bill Pautler joins Leticia to redefine survival mode as conforming to the world instead of being attuned to yourself. Bill shares multiple spiritual awakenings — including a life-changing moment in 1988 that cracked him open emotionally, and a later awakening that made him feel love for strangers like a spiritual electric shock.

But awakening came with a cost: community rejection, shame, isolation, and rebuilding from the floor of his office while being misunderstood and judged. Together, they unpack self-love, self-forgiveness, fear as restriction, surrender, and why silence is the most underrated healing tool on the planet.

Highlights include:

1. 🧠 Survival mode as masks + false beliefs
2. 🔥 Awakening as identity collapse + liberation
3. 💛 Self-forgiveness as giving yourself room to live
4. 🌊 Surrender as “stop fighting the current”
5. 🤫 Silence as the path back to your inner manual

1. Survival mode as conformity, masks, and unchallenged belief systems
2. Spiritual awakenings and emotional purging (“the gift of tears”)
3. What happens when you outgrow your tribe, religion, or community
4. Shame, guilt, and being labeled the problem for evolving
5. Self-love and self-forgiveness as foundational liberation
6. Fear as restriction and resistance to life’s flow
7. Awareness as a lighthouse: seeing triggers and choosing differently
8. How surrender restores power (instead of control addiction)
9. Why silence is the gateway to truth, peace, and purpose

Because so many high-achieving women are exhausted not from life — but from performing it.

This episode names the real prison: conformity, masks, and living by borrowed beliefs.

Bill’s story is a reminder that healing isn’t always therapy language and tidy transformation… sometimes it’s spiritual awakening, identity loss, and choosing truth even when it costs you community.

If you’re ready to stop surviving as a version of yourself that keeps everyone else comfortable, this conversation is your permission slip.

1. Website: AwakeningToOurselves.com
2. Book: Awakening to Ourselves: The Practical Art of Building a Spiritually Aware Life...

Rosa Casquino joins Leticia to unpack survival mode through the lens of trauma, culture, and community healing. As a Peruvian immigrant and survivor herself, Rosa shares how childhood violence, abuse, and cultural conditioning shaped her survival identity — and how healing required awareness, rewiring, and reinvention.

Highlights include:

1. 🧠 Survival mode = internal safety strategies (fight/flight/freeze/fawn)
2. 🧳 Immigration trauma and xenophobia as chronic nervous system stress
3. 🔥 “Stay small” conditioning in women of color + cultural survival roles
4. 🌱 Community as the antidote to isolation and shame
5. 💛 It’s never too late to heal — at any age

1. What survival mode really is (and why it’s misunderstood)
2. Shame, guilt, and self-judgment around “how we survived”
3. Rosa’s story: immigration, violence in the home, vulnerability to perpetrators
4. School as escape + the hidden coping strategies (including disordered eating)
5. Adulthood survival identities: authenticity loss, relationships, divorce, reinvention
6. Cultural expectations that reward self-sacrifice and silence
7. Immigration climate stress: fear, powerlessness, anger — and how to respond
8. Healing in community: friends, support systems, and seed-planting

Because too many women are walking around thinking they’re “too much” or “not enough,” when really they’re carrying survival scripts from trauma, culture, and generations before them.

This episode names what’s often ignored: immigration trauma, cultural self-erasure, and the nervous system cost of being taught to stay quiet to stay safe.

If you’ve been shrinking, people-pleasing, or self-sacrificing while calling it “being strong,” this conversation will crack that open.

And once it’s cracked… you can finally choose something different.

1. Website: thehealingguidecounseling.com
2. Instagram: @thehealingguidetherapist
3. TikTok: @thehealingguidetherapist
4. Work: Licensed in California + Nevada | Trauma therapy + immigration support resources

Mitch Webb breaks down what survival mode actually looks like in the body — and why so many people spend decades chasing “root causes” without realizing trauma and nervous system dysregulation are driving the symptoms.

This episode isn’t fluffy. It’s practical, blunt, and deeply validating for anyone who’s been stuck in chronic anxiety, insomnia, gut issues, fatigue, or emotional shutdown.

Highlights include:

1. 🫧 Survival mode as “being held underwater”
2. 🧠 Why intellectualizing = thinking your way to safety
3. 🧅 Trauma as layers: symptoms → patterns → identity
4. 💥 Why biohacks can become another coping mechanism
5. 🧭 How interoception helps you trust your body again

1. How trauma shows up as chronic symptoms (not just “big events”)
2. The “onion layers” of healing: symptoms, conditioning, identity
3. People-pleasing, perfectionism, black-and-white thinking, intellectualization
4. “Environmental failure” and unmet needs shaping survival identities
5. Why the body keeps the score — and eventually collects the debt
6. Why the modern world lowers our capacity (tech, food, water, stress, comparison)
7. Nervous system regulation basics: reconnecting to the body + nature
8. Coming out of survival mode = more choice, more authenticity, more power

Because women coaches are out here trying to scale businesses while their nervous systems are screaming.

And no amount of strategy, content batching, or ‘high vibe’ mindset work will fix a body that’s stuck in threat response.

This episode connects the dots between survival mode and the symptoms people normalize — insomnia, anxiety, burnout, gut dysfunction, chronic fatigue, emotional numbness.

If you want a 4-day work week and location freedom, your nervous system has to believe you’re safe enough to receive it. Period.

1. Website: mitchwebb.com
2. Podcast: Rooted Conversations with Mitch Webb
3. Instagram: @kmitchwebb
4. YouTube: Mitch Webb (somatic + nervous system content)