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Notes from the Edge

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Notes From the Edge is where polished stories end and the truth begins. Hosted by writer, trauma educator, executive advisor, and author Lisa Lacy, this globally ranked podcast explores survival, identity, trauma, addiction, recovery, leadership, relationships, and reinvention through raw, deeply human conversations. No scripts. No small talk. Just the stories we were taught to hide, the roles we performed to survive, and the truths that set us free. What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the edge. www.lisalacy.com

Latest episodes

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Edge Note: What if the thing destroying your peace is control?

In this Edge Note solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy gets personal about Bipolar I, trauma, uncertainty, and the exhausting need to control outcomes when your

Oct 11
13 min

Edge Note: What if your mind understands the trauma, but your body is still surviving it?

You can understand your patterns. You can know where they came from. You can spend years learning the language of trauma and healing, and still find your body reacting as

Oct 10
31 min

What if it's still not enough? Achievement Addiction, Human Performance & Finding Meaning with Dr. Jack Groppel

What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted and discover it still doesn’t feel like enough?Dr. Jack Groppel is a pioneering sports scientist and co-fo

Oct 10
46 min

What If Pushing Through Is the Problem? Burnout, Autoimmunity & Healing with Kristen Renee Appleby

What happens when the thing that made you successful, your ability to push through, perform, achieve, and keep going, becomes the very thing your body can no longer susta

Oct 9
40 min

What If Being Capable Doesn’t Mean You’re Okay? Chronic Illness & Survival with Jenna Schutt

What happens when the strength everyone sees is actually survival mode?Jenna Schutt, former cardiac registered nurse and stem cell transplant survivor, joins Lisa Lacy fo

Oct 8
48 min

SPECIAL EDITION: Mental Health Awareness Week | The Psychotic Trifecta

What happens when your mind creates a reality so convincing that everyone else can tell you it isn’t real, and you still know what you saw, heard, felt, and lived?In this

Oct 7
21 min

What if success isn’t something you chase, but something you build? Self-Worth, Self-Belief, and Consistency with Amy Lenius

What if sustainable success has less to do with talent, motivation, or doing more and more to do with self-worth, self-belief, and consistency?In this episode of Notes Fr

Oct 7
57 min

Can Chronic Back Pain Be Rewired? Back Surgery Alternatives with Dr. Eric Anderson

What if the pain you feel and the damage seen on an MRI aren’t always the same thing?Lisa Lacy sits down with neurologist Dr. Eric Anderson, MD, PhD, MBA, Chief Medical O

Oct 6
38 min

Edge Note: What if positivity is keeping you stuck?

We are told to look for the good, raise our vibration, practice gratitude, forgive, move on, and trust that everything happens for a reason. But what happens when positiv

Oct 3
9 min

Edge Note: What Happens When You Stop Searching Outside Yourself

What if the answers you’ve spent your whole life searching for aren’t somewhere out there, but waiting for you to finally turn inward?In this Edge Note of Notes From the

Oct 3
37 min

What Stories Are You Waiting Too Long to Ask For? Preserving Family Stories with Brad Koch

What stories disappear when the people we love are no longer here to tell them?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with entrepreneur, business coa

Oct 3
32 min

SPECIAL EDITION; The Unbroken Conversation with Liam Beville

Why a special edition? Because every once in a while, a conversation happens at the Edge that feels too important to wait its turn on the calendar. This is one of those c

Oct 2
42 min

How Do You Know When Work Becomes Trauma? Toxic Work Culture with Natalie Holder

What happens when the workplace you once worked so hard to succeed in becomes the place you no longer recognize yourself?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy

Oct 2
50 min

How do you stop performing in your marriage? Somatic Healing in Intimate Relationships with Natalie Vartanian & Glenn Nielsen

What happens when the roles you learned to play in relationships start costing you yourself?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with relationship

Oct 1
50 min

What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi

What happens when accepting a diagnosis stops feeling like surrender and becomes the beginning of recovery?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down wit

Sep 30
38 min

Can You Regulate a Craving Before It Becomes a Relapse? Addiction Recovery, Relapse Prevention & Nervous System Regulation with Dr. Deborah

What happens inside your body in the seconds between a trigger, a craving, and a choice?Dr. Deborah Rozman is a behavioral psychologist and President/Co-CEO of HeartMath.

Sep 28
44 min

Edge Note: What If Telling the Truth About Your Mental Health Could Cost You Everything?

What happens when telling the truth about your mental health could cost you your credibility, your career, or the way people see you forever?In this solo episode of Notes

Sep 27
14 min

Edge Note: Are You Strong or Just Surviving?

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

Sep 26
35 min

What Happens When “Fine” Becomes a Mask? High-Functioning Depression, Immigrant Identity, Motherhood & Survival Roles with Dr. Nneka Oluoha

What happens when being capable becomes the very thing that keeps people from seeing you’re struggling?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Ni

Sep 26
32 min

What Happens When Trauma Becomes Your Identity? Sexual Assault, Trauma Healing, Reclaiming Your Power, Boundaries & Consent with Amy McKiern

What happens when something that happened to you starts defining who you are?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with author and survivor advocate

Sep 25
35 min

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