Episode 27

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20th Aug 2025

How She Escaped the Fight-or-Flight Loop

In this soul-deep episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Sivani walks us through the unfiltered truth of healing from chronic trauma. From gut-wrenching public breakdowns to rebuilding her body, boundaries, and brain from the ground up—this is the roadmap no one talks about.

Here’s what you’ll hear:

  • 🧠 The real reason meditation and routine didn’t work at first
  • 💊 Why she said yes to Western medicine (and how it actually helped)
  • 🌀 How hypnotherapy unlocked deeply buried trauma
  • ⚡ Breaking the addiction to fight-or-flight responses
  • 🔐 Rebuilding trust in the body, in others, and in herself

🎙️ What We Talk About:

  • How trauma becomes homeostasis
  • Why nervous system dysregulation keeps us stuck (even when we're "doing the work")
  • The difference between temporary coping and actual transformation
  • What hypnotherapy revealed that talk therapy couldn’t reach
  • Why some people resist healing (hint: it’s not weakness—it’s survival)
  • Setting and sustaining boundaries after a lifetime of people-pleasing
  • Redefining what it means to be in process, not perfectly healed


🔑 Key Takeaways:

“Your body will defend the very thing that’s destroying it—because it feels familiar.”
“Healing isn’t about perfection. It’s about permission.”
“You can’t boundary your way out of trauma—you have to face the root.”
“Being a people-pleaser isn’t kindness—it’s a survival strategy with receipts.”


🙌 Why This Episode Matters:

This conversation dismantles the fantasy of a "final stage" of healing.

Sivani’s story reminds us that recovery is a mosaic of modalities—none of which can carry the full load alone.

If you've tried the journaling, tried the therapy, tried the mindset work and still feel stuck—you're not broken.

You're buried.

And this episode hands you a damn shovel.


💬 Connect with Sivani:

🌐 Website: www.ExploreYogaHealth.com

📲 Instagram & Facebook: @ExploreYogaHealth

🤝 Free Listings for Wellness Professionals: Available on her site


🔗 Resources & Links:



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About the Podcast

Survival Mode Disrupted with Leticia R Francis
Disrupted Unapologetic Conversations about Survival Mode
Survival Mode Disrupted is not just a podcast. It's a rebellion.

A raw, unfiltered space where we finally stop pretending we're fine and start telling the truth—the truth about the trauma we've carried, the identities they had to wear to survive, and the radical decisions we made to break free.

Because here's the deal: survival mode isn’t just a season. It’s a damn identity. One that so many were forced to adopt just to get through life, to stay safe, to stay needed, to stay sane. But eventually, it starts costing you more than it protects. Your peace. Your purpose. Your power.

This podcast is for the disruptors—the people who were told to stay small, stay silent, stay grateful for crumbs… and said “hell no.”

Hosted by Leticia, The Survival Mode Disruptor herself—a trauma recovery mentor, speaker, and woman who has lived through the fires of abuse, betrayal, and breakdown and still chose to rise—this show dives deep into the unapologetic exits from survival mode that no one talks about.

You’ll hear from women (and a few brave men) who walked away from toxic relationships, soul-sucking careers, generational dysfunction, religious trauma, cultural expectations, and the lies they were taught to believe about themselves. Not because it was easy—but because staying would’ve killed something sacred inside of them.

These are the stories of bold pivots, quiet courage, and messy but miraculous rebirths.

Each episode is a conversation—a disruption—meant to wake something up in you. Whether it’s a guest sharing the moment they chose themselves for the first time, or Leticia dropping a truth bomb that makes you question everything you’ve normalized, this podcast is here to shake the foundation of your survival mode identity and replace it with something truer. Something freer.

We’re not here for surface-level self-care tips or fake empowerment slogans.

We’re here to talk about what it really takes to:

Reclaim your voice after being silenced.

Reinvent yourself after being broken down.

Rewrite your story when everyone else wants you to stay the same.

Release the guilt of choosing YOU.

This is for those who are done performing. Done pleasing. Done pretending.

It’s for the ones ready to exit survival mode—not slowly, not quietly, but disruptively and unapologetically.

You won’t leave this podcast the same.
You’ll cry. You’ll rage. You’ll laugh.
You’ll see yourself in every story.
And more importantly, you’ll remember who the hell you are.

Welcome to Survival Mode Disrupted.
It’s not just a podcast.
It’s a movement.
And your exit begins here.

About your host

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Leticia Francis

I am not here to inspire you—I am here to activate you.

As a Survivor, Keynote Speaker, and Trauma Recovery Mentor, I know what it’s like to fight battles no one sees. I also know that breaking free is possible. My work is about disrupting survival mode, exposing trauma-driven success cycles, and giving women the blueprint to reclaim their lives.

🔹 200+ podcast features & speaking engagements
🔹 Global Women of Choice Award Winner 2022
🔹 Creator of the Survival Mode Exit Plan
🔹 Host of Survival Mode Disrupted Podcast