Rhonda Davis
Ronda Davis, LCSW, is the founder and Clinical Director of Healing Feathers Therapy, a trauma-informed group practice in Millcreek/Salt Lake City, Utah, and host of the Authentically You podcast.
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Sep 15, 2026
Tammy SimmonsHOST
And there's something in there that, boy, it... that tugs at you sometimes to the, I mean, it paralyzes you.
Rhonda DavisGUEST
Well, I actually just had this conversation today with a client and I asked her, I said, what is our number one goal or priority in life? And she was like, to feed us.
Rhonda DavisGUEST
As a kid, as a baby, right, our survival adaptations, just like animals, our number one goal in life is to keep ourselves safe.
Rhonda DavisGUEST
And we will do anything, our nervous system will literally respond to do anything to keep us alive and to keep us safe.
Rhonda DavisGUEST
And it was really interesting for her because she had recognized that she wasn't safe in her family dynamic and in her household.
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