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Genesis Podcast Ep. 34
Survival scripts are your issue.
Not laziness. Not a bad attitude. Not "that's just who you are." The distrust. The hyper-independence. The emotional walls that never come down. The constant need to stay in control. Those may not be personality traits. They may be "survival scripts" internal rules you wrote to survive something, and they're still running your life. In Episode 34 of The Genesis Podcast, Carlton Young and Ken Funderburk unpack how father wounds, childhood pain, rejection, and unresolved trauma shape the beliefs that quietly govern our relationships, leadership, faith, and identity. What once protected you may now be preventing you from becoming who God created you to be. Because the truth is... The body keeps score. Your nervous system remembers what your mind has tried to forget. When trauma goes unresolved, your body stays armed. That's hypervigilance. It keeps scanning every room, every relationship, every disagreement, and every opportunity for the next threat even when the danger is long gone. The body isn't malfunctioning. It's doing exactly what it was trained to do. It just never got the memo that the threat is over. Powerful Quotes from the Episode "What you call your personality may actually be your protection." "Hyper-independence is unhealed pain wearing armor." "Some people don't have a work ethic problem—they have a nervous system that never learned safety." "Not every guarded response is discernment. Some of it is unresolved survival." "You can leave the trauma physically and still psychologically live there." "Discipline without healing eventually becomes another survival strategy." "Survival mindsets are installed before they're understood." "You cannot build Kingdom leadership on survival reflexes." "It did its job. Now it's time to write a new one."
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