Ep 6: Rewrite the Story: Mindset, Victimhood & the Trauma Industrial Complex with Mark England
1h 34m | Oct 27, 2026In this episode of Know Thy Healing, I sit down with Mark England — TEDx speaker, mindset coach, and co-founder and head coach of Enlifted — for a powerful conversation about the stories we tell ourselves, the language we use to construct our reality, and what becomes possible when we realize those stories can be changed.
Mark has spent nearly two decades studying the relationship between words, breath, mindset, and personal transformation. His definition of mindset is beautifully simple: the stories we believe about ourselves and our lives.
We explore how these stories often operate beneath conscious awareness, quietly shaping our identity, relationships, choices, and sense of what is possible. Mark walks us through Enlifted’s practical approach to bringing those narratives into the light — slowing down our speech, becoming aware of the breath, writing the story down, naming it, speaking it aloud, and beginning to see it from a different perspective.
One of the central themes of our conversation is the movement from victimhood into agency. Not through denying what happened, assigning blame, or pretending suffering isn’t real, but through recognizing that regardless of what we’ve experienced, we still have choices in how we write the story moving forward.
What I especially appreciate about Mark’s approach is that it isn’t built around deciding whether a story is morally “right” or “wrong.” The deeper question is simply: Is this the story you want to continue living inside? And if it isn’t, what might become possible if you chose another?
The conversation also moves into the difference between the organic suffering that is inevitably part of being human and what Mark refers to as the “trauma industrial complex” — his critique of the ways trauma can become an identity, an industry, or an endlessly reinforced narrative rather than something we acknowledge, integrate, and ultimately move through.
We explore therapy, psychoanalysis, trauma bonding, self-responsibility, faith, breath, language, and the danger of making our wounds the center of who we believe ourselves to be.
At its core, this episode is about simplicity.
The stories we tell ourselves matter.
The words we use matter.
The breath beneath those words matters.
And perhaps one of the most liberating realizations is that the story you’ve been living is not the only story available to you.
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