Episode 4

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23rd Jun 2025

The Healing Power Of Play

Angie Berrett’s journey is one of silence, survival, and disruption. A nurse, a trauma-informed movement coach, and a survivor of child abuse—Angie didn’t remember the trauma until decades later. What followed was a radical, raw reclamation of self through play, movement, and nontraditional healing methods. This episode is your permission slip to explore what healing can really look like.

  • 💥 Childhood trauma stored and forgotten… until betrayal unearthed it
  • ⚡️ Why chaos feels safe—and calm feels terrifying
  • 🧠 The science behind stored trauma and nervous system overload
  • 🐘 How pretending to be an elephant helped her reclaim power
  • 🍄 Psychedelics, shaking, and breaking free from shutdown
  • 🌀 The healing power of movement that doesn’t retraumatize
  • 🔥 What it really means to complete the cycle and stop surviving

🎙️ What We Talk About:

  • How trauma stored in the body can go unrecognized for years
  • The connection between chaos addiction and unprocessed trauma
  • Why traditional yoga wasn’t healing—and trauma-informed movement was
  • What “play” really means as a healing modality
  • Using psychedelics like psilocybin and ketamine to access buried emotion
  • The nervous system’s response to threat—and how to regulate it
  • Releasing trauma without reactivating it


🔑 Key Takeaways:

“If you don’t release the energy, your body stores the trauma—whether you remember it or not.”
“I thrived in chaos because calm made me anxious. That’s survival mode.”
“Play helped me feel powerful without triggering shutdown.”
“You don’t have to talk your way out of trauma—you can move through it.”


🙌 Why This Episode Matters:

Too many women are living with buried trauma and calling it “normal.” Angie’s story shatters the myth that healing only happens in therapy rooms. Her body remembered what her mind forgot—and through movement, play, and awareness, she found a path out. This conversation is a wake-up call to your nervous system. You don’t have to keep stuffing it down. There is another way.


💬 Connect with Angie:

  • 🌐 AngieBarrettMovement.com
  • 🐘 Free 5-Min Playful Movement Sequence for Overwhelm on her site
  • 📱 All her social media + contact info available there!


🔗 Resources & Links:



🙌 Connect with Leticia:

Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | Website



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About the Podcast

Survival Mode Disrupted - The Podcast
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