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EPISODE · May 27, 2026 · 20 MIN

Episode 1: When Strength Becomes Survival

from Compassion Over Silence · host Rashida Saunders | Author of Permission to Break

For a long time, strength meant survival. In this episode of Compassion Over Silence, Rashida Saunders explores what happens when resilience, responsibility, and self-reliance become identity, and the hidden cost of carrying everything quietly. Drawing from her experiences in public safety, leadership, motherhood, and healing, she reflects on emotional suppression, high-functioning survival, hypervigilance, and the realization that functioning is not the same thing as healing. Because what protects us can also isolate us, and what looks like strength on the outside can sometimes become suffering on the inside. Today we're talking about what happens when strength becomes survival, and what it takes to finally live beyond it.Leadership. Humanity. Honest Conversations.

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For a long time, strength meant survival. In this episode of Compassion Over Silence, Rashida Saunders explores what happens when resilience, responsibility, and self-reliance become identity, and the hidden cost of carrying everything quietly. Drawing from her experiences in public safety, leadership, motherhood, and healing, she reflects on emotional suppression, high-functioning survival, hypervigilance, and the realization that functioning is not the same thing as healing. Because what protects us can also isolate us, and what looks like strength on the outside can sometimes become suffering on the inside. Today we're talking about what happens when strength becomes survival, and what it takes to finally live beyond it.Leadership. Humanity. Honest Conversations.

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