Notes from the Edge
Notes From the Edge is a globally ranked podcast hosted by writer, trauma educator, and author Lisa Lacy. It features raw, unscripted conversations exploring survival, identity, trauma, addiction, recovery, leadership, relationships, and reinvention. The show focuses on the hidden stories and performed roles that people use to survive, aiming to uncover the truths that set them free.
Episodes
Menopause Didn’t Make Me Crazy. It Exposed What I Was Already Carrying. Solo Episode with Lisa Lacy
What happens when menopause doesn’t create the crisis, but exposes everything your mind and body have spent decades carrying?Lisa Lacy, writer and host of Notes From the Edge, explores how surgical menopause collided with a lifetime of trauma, recovery, psychiatric diagnoses, chronic illness and survival.After having her ovaries unexpectedly removed at 45, Lisa experienced rage, panic, de
Sexual Addiction & Betrayal Trauma: Boundaries, Grief and Healing with Roxanna Johnson
What happens to the spouse when the person with the addiction gets all the attention?In this deeply personal conversation, Lisa Lacy sits down with author, speaker and advocate Roxanna Johnson to talk about the side of sexual addiction that is too often forgotten: betrayal trauma and what it does to the partner left trying to make sense of a life that suddenly feels unrecognizable.After n
The Longest Distance: Men’s Mental Health, Male Loneliness & Emotional Healing with Daniel Sterling
What happens when achievement becomes a substitute for being seen?Writer, memoirist, and speaker Daniel Sterling joins Lisa Lacy for a candid conversation about men’s mental health, male loneliness, emotional vulnerability, masculinity, identity, and what it takes to raise emotionally whole boys.Daniel traces his own journey from an eight-year-old alpine ski racer who discovered the power
Coercive Control & Trauma Bonding: Why You Can’t “Just Leave” Solo Episode with Lisa Lacy
Why does someone stay in a relationship they know is hurting them? And why can leaving feel almost physically unbearable, even when you know you need to go?In this special solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy shares her own experience of spending 13 years in a marriage marked by addiction, betrayal, coercive control, gaslighting and trauma bonding.At the time, Lisa was also carr
Integrative Psychiatry: Root-Cause Mental Health, Depression & Whole-Person Care with Dr. Naveen Thomas
What if psychiatry looked beyond symptoms and asked a different question: What else could be happening here?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Dr. Naveen Thomas, board-certified psychiatrist and founder of Clarity Integrative Psychiatry, for a wide-ranging conversation about what mental healthcare can look like when we stop treating the diagnos
Designing a Life After Divorce: People-Pleasing, Reinvention & Creating a Home That Feels Like You with Jodi Koch
What happens when you realize the life you worked so hard to hold together no longer feels like your own?
In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Jodi Koch, CEO of Elizabeth Erin Designs and host of Designing in 5D, for a conversation that begins with interior design and quickly becomes something much bigger: divorce recovery, people-pleasing, perfectionism, child
Beyond the Mind: Consciousness, Trauma, Identity & the Search for Meaning with Dean Graves
What if stress isn’t simply something to eliminate, but something trying to show us where healing needs to happen?
In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with mental health counselor, meditation teacher, spiritual guide, author, and podcast host Dean Graves for a wide-ranging conversation about consciousness, trauma healing, identity, mindfulness, addiction recovery,
Women Have It Harder: The Pay Gap, Sexual Violence, Self-Sacrifice, Menopause & the Cost of Being Female
Women have it harder.
There, I said it.
And no, this is not a man-hating manifesto. I love men. In fact, parts of my romantic history would suggest I may have loved them a little too enthusiastically. This conversation is not about blaming men. It is about refusing to lie about what women experience in order to make anyone more comfortable.
In this solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lis
Teen Drug Use, Kratom & Addiction Prevention: What Parents Need to Know with Dave Kopeny
The drug landscape facing teenagers is changing faster than many parents realize.
In this second conversation with author, educator, private investigator, and ASAP Community founder Dave Kopeny, we go straight into what parents need to know about adolescent substance use, prevention, and the increasingly easy access young people have to potentially addictive substances.
Dave discusses Kra
Kitchen Design, Home & Reinvention: Building a Life You Love with Marvin W. Towler
What if designing a kitchen and designing a life have more in common than we think?
In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with kitchen designer and longtime construction professional Marvin Towler for a conversation that begins with kitchen remodeling, budgets, and beautiful spaces, then takes the kind of unexpected rabbit holes we love around here.
Marvin shares why
The Book Was Never Just the Book: Turning Your Story into Legacy with Missy Maxwell Worton
What if the story that will not leave you alone is not merely asking to be written, but asking to become a message that changes lives?In this live episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with her publisher, award-winning author, publishing strategist, and Light Warrior Publishing founder Missy Maxwell Worton for an honest conversation about writing through fear, publishing wit
Suicide, Radical Listening & the Truths We Leave Unsaid with Sean Wellington
This conversation includes candid discussion of suicide, suicidal ideation, attempts, grief, and the emotional realities carried by survivors and the people who love them.What happens when someone finally tells the whole truth and discovers that the person listening does not panic, turn away, or try to make the story more comfortable?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits
No Longer Leading With the Wound with Hilary Momberger Powers
What happens when success arrives before you have had the chance to understand who you are?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with transformational mentor, trauma-informed coach, motivational speaker, former child performer, and Licensed Vocational Nurse Hilary Momberger Powers.Hilary began working in front of the camera at five years old as the voice of Sally Bro
Hope Without Sight: Learning to Feel Deeply Without Losing Yourself with Saylor Cooper
What happens when empathy feels less like a gift and more like carrying everyone else’s emotions inside your own body?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with former client, author, entrepreneur, and radio host Saylor Cooper for an honest conversation about blindness, disability, emotional intelligence, nervous-system awareness, boundaries, and learning how to beco
I Worked It. But It Didn’t Work. Why Didn’t You Tell Me?
When doing everything “right” in recovery leaves you smaller, sicker, and further away from yourself.For two years, I did exactly what I was told.Six days a week. Sometimes two meetings a day. Inpatient rehabilitation. Outpatient rehabilitation. Sponsors. Step work. Inventories. Confessions. Amends.I stayed sober.But I was not becoming healthier.I was becoming smaller.In this deeply perso
You Can't Automate Relationships with Beth Granger
Beth Granger on visibility, digital trust, critical conversations, and staying human in an increasingly automated worldTechnology can help us reach thousands of people, write polished messages, and build impressive networks.But it cannot create trust for us.Beth Granger is a speaker, consultant, trainer, emcee, and LinkedIn and networking strategist who helps professionals communicate mor
How Chronic Devaluation Shapes Confidence, Relationships, and Ambition
What happens when nothing you accomplish ever seems to be enough?In this solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the long-term impact of chronic devaluation, especially when it begins in childhood. She shares personal stories of earning straight A’s, leading teams, serving on committees, excelling in performance, and still feeling as though the finish line kept moving.When
Clawing Back From the Bottom with Bryan Blackmon
Bryan Blackmon left Texas for California chasing a dream. Instead, he found himself homeless, sleeping in his car, and drowning in alcohol and addiction.Then an elderly landlord named Elaine chose not to give up on him.Her belief became a turning point, but Bryan still had to do the work of becoming someone he could believe in, too.Today, Bryan is sober, a recovery advocate, transformatio
I Was Wounded… and Slightly Feral
It is exactly midnight, I am editing Notes From a Certified Madwoman, and I have finally realized something:Maybe I was never crazy.Maybe I was wounded, dysregulated, surviving, and just slightly feral.In this solo episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, I talk about what happens when trauma is mistaken for personality, survival responses are reduced to mental illness, and the context
WATCH ME with Renee Carbone Fleming
The Price of Waiting for Permission and the Power of Becoming Visible AnywayWhat happens when a woman stops waiting to feel confident, stops explaining every decision, and starts building the life she knows she is capable of creating?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with award-winning entrepreneur, author, podcast host, and founder of the Badass Queen™ movement,
People Were More Comfortable With My Suffering When I Carried It Quietly
Female Anger, Menopause, and What Happens When the Manageable Woman DisappearsPeople celebrate strong women until those women get angry, set boundaries, stop apologizing, or remove access.In this episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, Lisa Lacy explores female anger, menopause, nervous-system overload, and what happens when the emotionally manageable woman begins to disappear. Menopa
The Last Rocketman: Fear Is Information Not Instruction with Dan Schlund
What happens when the thing that made you feel most alive nearly kills you?“Rocketman” Dan Schlund is one of the last professionally trained Rocketbelt pilots in the world. For a decade, he flew jet packs at events across 25 countries and six continents, performing hundreds of flights without a parachute and with only seconds of fuel strapped to his back.But Dan’s most extraordinary story
When Your Diagnosis Enters the Room Before You Do
Psychiatric labels, medical dismissal, and what happens when a human being becomes paperworkWhat happens when a provider sees your psychiatric history before they truly see you?In this deeply personal solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the dangerous gap between being treated as a medically complex human being and being reduced to “the psychiatric patient.”Drawing from
What the Hell is Love?
What happens when you grow up without hearing “I love you,” without being held, and without learning what safe, enduring affection feels like?In this deeply personal solo episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, I explore the difference between loving someone and knowing how to experience love.My parents never told me they loved me. My father wrote the words in letters I would not open
The Competence Trap with Loren Silverman
Burnout, Boundaries, and Why the Most Capable Person in the Room May Be Closest to the EdgeWhat happens when competence becomes a survival strategy?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with life coach and former technology leader Loren Silverman for an honest conversation about burnout, overthinking, boundaries, self-abandonment, and the hidden cost of always being
Before the First Hit with Dave Kopeny
How Parents Can Recognize Risk, Interrupt Addiction, and Become Their Child’s Strongest Protective ForceEvery parent wants to believe their child will know how to recognize danger, make the right decision, and walk away when drugs enter the picture.But today’s drug landscape is more accessible, potent, and aggressively marketed than many families realize. By the time a parent knows someth
Who Got You Here Won't Get You There
Jim Hughes on Identity, Fear, Self-Judgment, and Becoming the Person Beneath the PerformanceThe person who got you here may have been exactly who you needed to become.The achiever. The problem-solver. The founder who never stops moving. The leader who learned how to carry the pressure, meet the expectations, and become whatever the moment required.But what happens when that identity begin
When Leadership Stops Developing People with Dr. Katie Trowbridge
Curiosity, Compliance, and Teams That Think.Why do capable, intelligent teams stop taking initiative?Sometimes it is not because people are lazy, disengaged, or unwilling to contribute. Sometimes they have learned that following directions is safer than asking questions, challenging assumptions, or offering an original idea.In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with
When Compassion Is Not Enough
What happens when someone you love is in crisis, refuses help, and waiting for them to become “ready” may cost them their life?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with attorney, former prosecutor, and family crisis advocate Mark Astor for a necessary and deeply human conversation about addiction, severe mental illness, involuntary treatment, family trauma, and the
The Confidence Beneath the Craving
Addiction, Bipolar Disorder, and Rebuilding a Life with the S.O.B.E.R. MethodWhat happens when you remove the substance, but the pain, pressure, and survival patterns underneath it remain?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with author, entrepreneur, podcast host, and addiction recovery advocate Massimo Rigotti for an honest conversation about addiction, bipolar di
THE MONSTERS WE CARRY
Richard Spegal on Dark Fantasy, Mental Health, and the Battles WithinAuthor Richard Spegal returns to Notes From the Edge for a deeper conversation about the profoundly human truths hiding inside dark fantasy.Richard creates supernatural worlds filled with danger, moral complexity, and characters who are anything but one-dimensional. Beneath the monsters, battles, curses, and impossible c
Living With an Invisible Illness: The Unbearable Fear and Loneliness
In this deeply personal solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy records at 3 a.m., during the hour when the world grows quiet and every unfamiliar sensation in the body becomes impossible to ignore.Lisa lives with hereditary antithrombin deficiency, a rare congenital blood disorder that allows her blood to clot even while she is taking medication designed to prevent it. After survi
The Call That Cannot Go Unanswered
Recovery, AI, and the Human Cost of a Missed Moment in Addiction TreatmentWhat happens when someone finally finds the courage to ask for help, calls a treatment center, and no one answers?To an organization, it may look like a missed call or a dead lead. But on the other end of that phone is a human being standing inside a brief and potentially life-changing moment of willingness.In this
Mother of 6 Found Slain: For Cletha
On August 9, 1969, while the world’s attention turned toward the Manson murders across town, another woman was killed on what society considered the wrong side of Los Angeles.Her name was Cletha, and she was my grandmother.She was a poor mother of six whose injuries left her face unrecognizable, yet her death was recorded as natural causes. The man responsible never faced a courtroom. The
When Survival Becomes an Identity
Childhood Trauma, Self-Destruction, and Reclaiming the Person Beneath the PerformanceContent note: This episode includes discussion of childhood sexual abuse, suicide attempts, addiction patterns, abusive relationships, and trauma recovery. Please listen with care.What happens when the version of you that learned how to survive becomes the identity you no longer know how to remove?From th
Menopause, Insomnia, and the Disappearing Bullshit Filter
The dogs woke me up. Menopause made sure I stayed awake. And suddenly my nervous system was hosting a 3:00 a.m. board meeting about every decision I have made since 1997.In this episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, we are talking about the biology behind menopause-related insomnia, including hormonal changes, temperature dysregulation, nervous-system activation, and why one small i
When Love Becomes the Way Back to Yourself
What happens when the person you learned to abandon in order to survive is yourself?Many of us learned early how to stay quiet, become useful, keep the peace, earn approval, and make ourselves smaller so other people would remain comfortable. Those adaptations may have helped us survive childhood, but they can follow us into our relationships, our faith, our work, and the way we understan
The Stories Life Writes Through Us: Nursing, Hospice, Faith & Storytelling
What happens when a lifetime of caring for people, witnessing loss, raising a family, and navigating life’s hardest moments becomes the foundation for storytelling?Join me for a new live episode of Notes From the Edge with author, legal nurse consultant, hospice specialist, teacher, and multi-genre storyteller Nancy Jasin Ensley.Nancy has spent decades working in professions that require
When Skill Isn't Enough
What happens to the surgeon after a patient experiences a devastating complication?Clinicians are trained to make life-or-death decisions, perform under extraordinary pressure, and remain calm when everything is at stake. But they are rarely taught how to process the emotional aftermath when an outcome goes wrong.In this live episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with trauma
The Miles We Run From Ourselves: Endurance, Anxiety, and What Lies Beyond Grit
How far will we push ourselves before we finally ask what we are running from?Marc Hopkins has completed the Bigfoot 200, eight Ironman-distance triathlons, and more than 200 endurance events. But the most difficult terrain he has ever crossed was the landscape inside himself.In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Marc joins Lisa Lacy for a raw conversation about the difference between t
Why Love Gets So Complicated
Why do relationships feel harder than ever, even when two people genuinely love each other?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with relationship coach, author, speaker, and ordained minister Andre Paradis for an honest conversation about love, communication, commitment, intimacy, and the survival patterns we unknowingly carry into our relationships.Before becoming
High Performance Without Burnout: Building a Better Relationship with Time
We all get the same 24 hours.So why do some people feel purposeful while others feel overwhelmed?Join me for a live conversation with keynote speaker, author, and time strategy coach C.W. Hawley as we explore the hidden relationship between leadership, identity, and the way we experience time.Rather than offering another productivity system, C.W. challenges us to rethink the beliefs, habi
The Human Cost of High Performance
What does success cost when the person carrying it is quietly breaking underneath it?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with James Lang, Managing Partner and co-founder of OverLang Venture Partners, for a conversation about ambition, identity, leadership, medical crisis, and the human cost of high performance.Before launching OverLang, James served as COO of a Med
When Survival Rewrites Morality
What happens when the future disappears?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, I’m joined by dystopian thriller author T.A. Thompson, creator of The Mark, to explore the fascinating intersection of survival, morality, power, and human nature.Through the lens of fiction, we’ll discuss why stories about collapse often reveal uncomfortable truths about ourselves. From morally complex charac
Finding Meaning, Hope, and the Courage to Keep Talking About Suicide Loss.
What happens after a loss that changes your life forever?How do we talk about suicide, grief, and mental health in ways that bring healing instead of silence?Join me for a powerful live episode of Notes From the Edge as I sit down with author, nationally syndicated columnist, founder of The HelpHUB™, Trevor Project crisis counselor, and three-time suicide loss survivor Lisa Sugarman.Toget
When a Vision Changes Everything: Consciousness and the Search for Meaning
What happens when one extraordinary experience changes the course of your entire life?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Australian visionary author Eugene Samolin to explore the intersection of spirituality, consciousness, creativity, and purpose. After a profound spiritual experience reshaped his understanding of reality, Eugene dedicated his life to writin
When High Achievement Becomes Survival
Success isn’t always a sign that we’re thriving.Sometimes it’s evidence of how well we’ve learned to survive.In this episode of Notes From the Edge, I’m joined by internationally recognized stress management expert, speaker, coach, and six-time Amazon #1 bestselling author Lolita Guarin for a conversation about burnout, nervous system health, boundaries, and the hidden cost of high achiev
You got screwed. Your brain may have gotten rewired.
If you’ve ever walked away from betrayal wondering, “What happened to me?” this episode is for you.Whether the betrayal came from a partner, family member, workplace, friendship, your health, or even life itself, chronic stress and betrayal don’t just break trust. They can change the way your brain processes safety, relationships, and decision-making.In this solo episode of Notes From the
What If Nothing Is Wrong With You? Understanding the Behaviors That Help Us Survive
What if the behaviors we judge the most are actually the ones that helped us survive?Join me for a powerful live episode of Notes From the Edge with Jessie Hannah, creator of Bare Becoming, as we explore the neuroscience behind body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), trichotillomania, shame, nervous system regulation, and the path from self-judgment to self-understanding.After hiding h
When Love Meets Survival: Healing Relationships After Trauma
What if the biggest challenges in our relationships aren’t about communication at all?What if they’re about survival?Join me for a live episode of Notes From the Edge with licensed marriage and family therapist Kayla Crane as we explore the hidden ways trauma, attachment, and past experiences shape the way we love, fight, trust, and connect.Together we’ll discuss:• Why communication alone
Finding JOY in a World That Rewards Burnout
What if success isn’t the destination we’ve been taught it is?Join me live for an honest conversation with Ted Kopecko, #1 international bestselling author of Finding JOY… Journey of You, as we explore why so many accomplished professionals still feel burned out, disconnected, and unfulfilled despite doing everything “right.”After more than 30 years in business, architecture, entrepreneur
Beyond Survival: Awakening Through Adversity
What if healing ourselves is the first step toward healing the world?Join me for a powerful live conversation with author, artist, environmental advocate, and longtime meditation and yoga practitioner TeZa Lord as we explore the connection between recovery, spirituality, resilience, and our relationship with the natural world.After overcoming addiction and transforming her own life, TeZa
When Healing Isn’t Enough: The Deeper Shift Beyond Insight
We’ve all heard the advice.Go to therapy.Journal.Meditate.Read the books.Do the inner work.But what happens when you’ve done all of that and something still feels stuck?Join me for a live conversation with Cheryl Stelte, bestselling author, speaker, and founder of the Azarias Energy Healing Certification Program, as we explore why awareness doesn’t always lead to transformation and what i
Success Without Alignment: Why High Achievers Still Feel Empty
Can you build a successful business without losing yourself?Entrepreneur, speaker, and business strategist Gini Trask has spent decades helping companies grow into multi-million-dollar organizations. But behind every business challenge she encountered was something much deeper: people searching for purpose, alignment, and a way to succeed without sacrificing themselves.In this episode of
The Money Monster Within: Managing Yourself Before You Manage Your Money
Most financial advice focuses on budgets, investments, and strategies.But what if the biggest obstacle to financial freedom isn’t your bank account?What if it’s the unconscious story you’re living?Join me for Part II of my conversation with financial advisor, former Benedictine monk, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author Douglas Lynam as we take a deeper look into the psychology of money t
When Everyone’s Brain Works Differently: Living with autism, ADHD, trauma, and mental illness under one roof… and learning that understanding matters more than being right.
What happens when everyone in the house experiences the world through a different nervous system?In this deeply personal episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, Lisa Lacy explores the reality of loving people with neurodivergence, trauma histories, and mental health challenges while navigating your own. Sharing stories from her own family, Lisa discusses her daughter’s late autism dia
The Mental Health Crisis Nobody Warned Women About | Menopause, Depression & the Hidden Risk of Suicide
What if the greatest mental health crisis facing midlife women isn’t happening because they’re “losing their minds”…What if it’s happening because we’ve stopped listening?In this solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the overlooked intersection of menopause, depression, neuroscience, and women’s mental health. Drawing from current research and her own lived experience of
The Patterns We Repeat: What Our Relationships Reveal About Ourselves
Why do so many of us find ourselves living the same story with different people?Why do painful relationship patterns continue long after we’ve left the original wounds behind?Join me for a powerful live conversation with healer, teacher, and author Ben Oofana, whose work bridges decades of study in Native American healing traditions, Taoist internal arts, meditation, and emotional transfo
Why Some Mental Health Diagnoses Become Identities and Some Become Prisons.
What if the diagnosis isn’t the whole story?In this live episode of Notes From the Edge, we’ll explore one of the most important conversations happening in psychology today.Why has ADHD become increasingly accepted in boardrooms, businesses, and everyday conversations while diagnoses like Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Complex PTSD continue to carry so much stigma?
When Stories Heal What Therapy Can’t with Justin Anderson
How Fiction Gives Voice to Invisible Wounds.What if the story that changes your life isn’t found in a psychology textbook… but in a fantasy novel?This week on Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with author and world-builder Justin Anderson to explore how fiction can become a bridge to healing for people who struggle to put their pain into words.Justin never intended to build a mytho
What the Horse Saw Before I Did with Maria Alessandri
How Our Relationships Reveal the Parts of Ourselves We’ve Never Examined.More than twenty years ago, Maria adopted a rescue horse believing she was there to train him. Instead, the horse transformed the way she understood communication, leadership, parenting, boundaries, and human relationships.This conversation isn’t about horses. It’s about the hidden ways we communicate, the blind spot
The Wealth We Can’t Spend
From Marine to Monk to Money Manager: What Money Is Really Trying to Teach Us.Money is one of the most emotionally charged languages we speak, yet few of us were ever taught how to understand it.In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Douglas Lynam, whose extraordinary journey spans Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, twenty years as a Benedictine monk, and a c
A New Kind of Depression in Menopause: When Your Hormones Change, Your Brain Changes Too
What if the sadness you’re carrying isn’t simply emotional?What if your brain is trying to adapt to one of the biggest neurological transitions of your life?Millions of women enter perimenopause and menopause believing they’re losing themselves. Motivation disappears. Anxiety gets louder. Depression returns after years of stability. Relationships suffer. Careers become harder. Many begin
Who Are You When the Identity That Defined You No Longer Exists?
What happens when the identity you’ve built your entire life around suddenly disappears?After multiple combat deployments as an Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician, Benjamin J. Lee came home carrying invisible wounds that led to addiction, depression, and one life-altering question:Who am I without the uniform?In this powerful episode of Notes From the Edge, host Lisa Lacy si
Understanding Chronic Suicidal Thoughts: A Conversation About Hope, Healing, and Mental Health
What if thoughts of suicide aren’t always a desire to die, but a signal that something inside desperately needs to change?In one of the most important conversations we’ve had on Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Harold Walter Azmann, Founder and CEO of the World Mental Health Forum, for a compassionate discussion about chronic suicidal thoughts, depression, suffering, hope, an
Maybe Success Was Never the Goal
What If Satisfaction Is the Thing You’ve Been Chasing All Along? What if the thing you’ve been chasing your entire life… was never the thing you actually needed?In this episode of Lessons for Lisa: Notes to My Future Self, a reflective series under the Notes From the Edge podcast, I explore a question that caught me completely off guard:If success doesn’t guarantee peace… what have I actu
When You Remember You’re Made of Stardust
How Looking at the Universe Can Shrink Even Our Biggest ProblemsWhat happens when you stop looking at your life through the lens of your problems… and start looking at it through the lens of the universe?In this episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, I’m reflecting on a conversation that reminded me of something I’d forgotten.We’re not just people trying to survive another Monday.We
When Your Body Becomes A Stranger
What happens when the body you’ve lived in for 50 years suddenly doesn’t feel like home?This isn’t just a conversation about menopause. It’s a conversation about identity.In this deeply personal solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the grief of watching your body change, the unexpected humor that helps us survive it, and the profound psychological shift that happens whe
The Hidden Cost of Keeping Score
Lessons for Lisa: Notes to My Future Self is a reflective solo series under the Notes From the Edge podcast umbrella.These aren’t lectures.They aren’t polished TED Talks.They’re honest conversations with the woman I’m still becoming.Each episode is a letter to my future self, exploring the lessons I’m learning in real time about healing, identity, recovery, relationships, resilience, and
Midnight Menopausal Meanderings: It was Never about the Biscuits & Gravy
Welcome to the first episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, a new recurring series under the Notes From the Edge umbrella.This series is where the polished masks come off. It’s part storytelling, part philosophy, part neuroscience, part marriage counseling you didn’t ask for, and occasionally… it starts with something as ridiculous as biscuits and gravy. In this deeply personal solo
The Biology of Trust After Betrayal
Why is it so hard to trust again after betrayal, even when you know the danger has passed?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the biology of betrayal and why healing is about so much more than “letting it go.”Together, we’ll explore:• Why trust is a biological prediction, not just an emotion• What happens inside the brain and body after betrayal• Why attachment and
The Courage to Be Seen: What Healing Really Asks of Us
What if healing isn’t about becoming someone new?What if it’s about having the courage to finally tell yourself the truth?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with counselor Teddy Engels for a thoughtful conversation about self-awareness, personal responsibility, and the questions that shape our lives. Together they explore what it means to know yourself without jud
The Masks We Wear: Identity, Narcissism & What We Perform to Survive
Welcome to another episode of Notes From the Edge.In this unscripted solo conversation, Lisa Lacy explores the masks we wear to survive and the identities we often mistake for who we really are.From mom guilt and relationships to the growing misuse of the term “narcissist,” Lisa challenges listeners to look beneath the labels and ask deeper questions. Why do we perform certain roles? What
What Men Don’t Say: Breaking the Trauma Bond Cycle
Why do so many intelligent, capable people stay trapped in relationships that continue to hurt them?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Steve Barton to explore trauma bonds through the often-overlooked male perspective. Together, they unpack how childhood conditioning, identity, fear, shame, and the need to earn love can keep people locked in unhealthy relatio
Truth in the Shadows: Mental Health, Identity & the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Some of the most important conversations happen in the gray areas.In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with author and former military officer Richard Spegal for an honest conversation about leadership, identity, creativity, mental health, and the stories we build around ourselves to survive.Richard shares his journey from serving in the military to becoming an awar
The Sanctuary Bond: How to Build a Relationship That Feels Safe, Strong, and Lasting.
What do you do when life gives you a second chance?In this powerful episode of Notes From the Edge, I sit down with Gaylen Wilson, heart transplant survivor, relationship coach, author, and founder of The Monument Method Institute. Gaylen’s story is one of extraordinary reinvention. From farm failure and alcoholism to career collapse, heart failure, and ultimately receiving a life-saving
The Game of Ten: Moving Beyond Fear, Self-Doubt, and Shame
What if the biggest obstacle to your success isn’t a lack of skill, knowledge, or opportunity but the invisible fears running beneath the surface?In this thought-provoking conversation, Lisa sits down with executive coach, author, and creator of The Game of Ten®, Steve Barton. Drawing from nearly five decades of business and leadership experience, Steve shares a powerful framework for hel
Are You Performing Your Sex Life?
What happens when performance follows us into the most intimate parts of our lives?In this powerful conversation, Lisa Lacy sits down with relationship and embodiment coach Tracy Allyn to explore performative sex, disconnection from the body, and the hidden ways survival strategies shape our relationships, leadership, creativity, and sense of self.Together, they discuss the difference bet
The Art of Saying No: Why Women Were Never Taught This Skill
Why is saying no so hard?For many women, it isn’t a communication problem. It’s a survival strategy.In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa explores the psychology of people pleasing, the conditioning that teaches women to prioritize everyone else’s comfort over their own, and the hidden costs of a life built around approval, usefulness, and performance.Together, we’ll unpack why bou
“I’m Fine”: The Hidden Cost of High-Functioning Survival
She has the career.The responsibilities.The accomplishments.The smile.Everyone thinks she’s doing fine.But what if competence has become camouflage?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa explores the hidden world of high-functioning survival, the adaptations, identities, and performances that help people survive difficult circumstances while quietly disconnecting them from themselve
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