Exiled & Rising: Trauma Recovery & Somatic Healing

Ana Mael
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What happens to the nervous system when survival becomes identity? Exiled & Rising is a trauma-focused podcast exploring nervous system regulation, shame repair, displacement, boundaries, and dignity-centered healing in a world that often silences collective trauma. Hosted by integrative somatic trauma specialist Ana Mael, this podcast bridges advanced trauma science with lived experience of war and collective violence — offering grounded, justice-aware healing beyond surface-level self-help. Each episode blends: • Nervous system education • Somatic trauma recovery tools • Boundary and shame repair • Reflections on exile, identity, and belonging • Conversations on trauma justice and systemic harm This is not mindset work. This is bottom-up nervous system repair. Exiled & Rising is especially relevant for: • Survivors of war, displacement, and collective trauma • Immigrants navigating identity rupture • Adult children of exiled and displaced families • Those estranged from family or faith communities • Person seeking somatic approaches to PTSD and complex trauma recovery • Clinicians interested in dignity-centered trauma frameworks Rather than isolating healing from context, this podcast examines how trauma lives in the body — and how justice, sovereignty, and regulation must coexist. Meet Your Host Ana Mael (MSc, SEP, TEB, TST) is an integrative somatic trauma practitioner and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. Her work is informed by lived experience of war and collective violence and grounded in advanced training in Somatic Experiencing®, Transforming Touch®, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, trauma memory reconsolidation, and attachment repair. She specializes in working with survivors of war, displacement, systemic harm, and complex trauma — helping clients restore nervous system stability, dignity, and embodied sovereignty. She is the author of the bestselling books The Trauma We Don’t Talk. Learn more about her work at the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center:
https://www.somatictraumarecoverycenter.com/ — Support & Resources Read The Trauma We Don’t Talk About
https://amzn.to/41SjKKL ❤️ Support the podcast
https://exiledandrising.castos.com/donate Explore all programs: https://exiledandrising.mykajabi.com/store She lives in Toronto, Canada. Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes and does not replace individualized mental health care. Please consult a licensed provider for personal treatment.

  1. The 4 Somatic Pillars of Trauma and PTSD Healing

    1d ago

    The 4 Somatic Pillars of Trauma and PTSD Healing

    You’re not stuck because you can’t let go. You’re stuck because your body hasn’t recognized that it’s over. Why does someone from your past still feel present… even years later? Why does your body react as if something is happening now… when it’s already over? In this episode, we move beyond talking about trauma… and into how your nervous system organizes around relational experiences. When there has been emotional neglect, unhealthy patterns, or abuse, your system doesn’t just remember—it adapts. It learns to stay alert, to monitor, to carry the weight of what happened. And unless that organization changes… you can stay stuck in it for years. Today, I guide you through a somatic framework for healing relational trauma through four core elements: Space — learning to recognize that the experience is not happening inside you Time — differentiating the past from the present moment Weight — releasing the emotional and physiological burden from your body Movement — restoring autonomy, direction, and choice This is not about “moving on.” It is about helping your nervous system update… so you can finally feel safe again. If you’ve ever felt: stuck in the past hyper-aware of someone who is no longer in your life emotionally pulled into old patterns or unable to fully let go This episode will give you a new way to understand what is happening—and how to begin shifting it. Somatic Trauma Recovery Center https://www.somatictraumarecoverycenter.com/ Other Ways to Work Together: Read the book: https://amzn.to/41SjKKL ❤️ Support the podcast: https://exiledandrising.castos.com/donate Explore all programs: https://exiledandrising.mykajabi.com/store Chapters (00:00:00) - 4 Pillars for Somatic Healing of PTSD and Trauma Recovery(00:02:33) - Somatic recovery: The Space Between Past and Present(00:10:57) - Three pillars of trauma healing(00:24:58) - Soma Work for PTSD Recovery(00:34:38) - Daily Wisdom for Today

    35 min
  2. Tamed Power: The Trauma Minorities, BIPOC & Exiled People Don't Talk About"

    Jul 5

    Tamed Power: The Trauma Minorities, BIPOC & Exiled People Don't Talk About"

    They told you it was your personality. It was never your personality — it was the most intelligent survival response to a world that punished you for existing.  And that survival became the most tamed, most powerful force inside you. In this episode of Exiled and Rising, trauma educator, survivor, and author Ana Mael speaks directly to the wound that mainstream mental health has consistently failed to name — the slow, invisible erasure of self that happens not through a single dramatic event, but through years, decades, generations of being taught that your existence is too much, your needs are inconvenient, your voice is unwelcome, and your space belongs to someone else. This is the specific trauma of minorities. Of BIPOC communities. Of exiled and displaced people. Cast out. Of anyone raised inside families, cultures, and systems that required their disappearance as the price of safety. Ana draws from living through three wars, surviving genocide, years of homelessness, and displacement to name what so many carry silently: the conditioning into invisibility that gets mislabeled as personality. Introversion. Shyness. Passivity. When it is none of those things. It is intelligence. It is adaptation. It is tamed power waiting to move. And in this episode she reveals what she has witnessed firsthand — that when crisis comes, when communities face war, displacement, wildfires, pandemics, political collapse — it is never the loudest voices who step forward. It is the silenced ones. The ones who know survival. The ones who carry tamed power. This episode will shift something in you if: You grew up in an environment where your needs, opinions, or presence felt dangerous or unwelcome You are part of a minority, BIPOC, or exiled community navigating identity and trauma You have spent years waiting for permission to exist, speak, need, or matter You are a therapist, educator, or advocate working with marginalized communities You believe trauma recovery must go beyond symptom reduction into full reclamation of self What Ana explores: Why shrinking is survival intelligence, not a personality flaw The generational cost of invisibility on BIPOC and displaced communities Why the silenced ones lead in times of crisis What trauma recovery looks like when it includes learning to exist The questions that begin to unlock tamed power Somatic Trauma Recovery Center https://www.somatictraumarecoverycenter.com/ Read the book: https://amzn.to/41SjKKL ❤️ Support the podcast: https://exiledandrising.castos.com/donate Chapters (00:00:00) - The Trauma We Don't Talk About(00:12:26) - Yielding Trauma(00:21:43) - Who steps forward in a time of uncertainty?

    33 min
  3. You Need Justice, Not Breathwork: How Silence Shaped You & Society (Part 2)

    Jul 2

    You Need Justice, Not Breathwork: How Silence Shaped You & Society (Part 2)

    Ana is not just teaching about trauma. She’s renaming the moral and political architecture that protects it. She dismantles: Silence as safety Strength as suppression Healing as isolation And replaces them with: Voice as birthright Co-regulation as repair Justice as embodied integrity “Your voice isn’t too much. It’s exactly what was missing. And it’s time to speak — even if your voice shakes, even if no one taught you how.” PRE-SALE FOR HER TEACHINGS STARTS NOW — Save $70 https://exiledandrising.mykajabi.com/offers/KDmX3bhu Get the Book – The Trauma We Don’t Talk About https://amzn.to/41SjKKL Support the Podcast – Independent, unsponsored, unfiltered https://buy.stripe.com/3cscOqbbXfZp0sU7ss Join the Free Premium Membership https://exiledandrising.supercast.com/ CORE THEME “Silence is not just absence. Silence is the mechanism by which trauma survives.” Ana reframes silence as complicity, disconnection, and a system of harm — not emotional maturity or grace. KEY INSIGHTS & TAKEAWAYS 1. Prolonged Silence = Stored Trauma “If you were able to talk, you would be able to process what happened to you.” PTSD isn’t just from pain — it’s from being denied the right to speak about pain. 2. Somatic Freeze = Silenced Expression “When someone has no voice and no movement, we know they have trauma.” Body shutdown isn’t weakness — it’s survival adaptation. 3. Confusion = Early Symptom of Emotional Abuse “Feeling confused all the time is a trauma state.” When someone rewrites your truth, you lose the ability to trust your instincts. 4. Silence Is the Fertilizer of Intergenerational Trauma “Notice how silence was the fertilizer of your trauma and how it was cultivated and passed down.” Silence isn’t neutral — it’s a behavior passed down like inheritance. 5. Spiritual Bypassing = Complicity in Oppression “Spiritual bypassing is not grace. It’s abuse in white gloves.” Ana critiques how “love and light” language is often used to silence survivors. 6. You’re Not Dysregulated Because You’re Weak “You are dysregulated because you were silenced.” This quote shifts blame off the survivor and onto the structures that failed them. 7. What Real Trauma Processing Looks Like Ana outlines a somatic, embodied roadmap: Safe relational witness “Someone to say: Your experience was real.” Co-regulation during grief “Grief needs to be met in the body, not solved by the mind.” Time and space to integrate “The body takes 7x longer than the brain to integrate.” SYSTEMS ANA EXPOSES Loyalty cultures: “Don’t speak. He’s still your father.” Silencing systems: “Don’t be dramatic. We don’t talk about that here.” Spiritual industries: “It’s for the higher good. Your trauma is your gift.” Chapters (00:00:00) - Start Speaking Out(00:09:54) - Being silenced in trauma recovery(00:18:58) - Betrayal in the Spiritual World(00:31:32) - Exiled and Rising: Moral Courage

    34 min
  4. How Self-Care Became a Tool of Tyranny and Fascism — And You Didn’t Even Notice. You Got Played and Lost Moral Clarity!

    Jul 1

    How Self-Care Became a Tool of Tyranny and Fascism — And You Didn’t Even Notice. You Got Played and Lost Moral Clarity!

    “Fascism doesn’t begin with guns. It begins with people whispering affirmations while their neighbors are deported.” "Tyranny doesn’t begin with guns. It begins with disinterest." "Self-care without moral clarity is just another form of self-abandonment." What if the obsession with self-care is no longer care—but emotional neglect, disguised as healing?” In this critical episode of Exiled and Rising, trauma therapist Ana Mael examines how the booming self-care industry is creating generations of emotionally numb individuals, eroding moral clarity, and paving the way for societal apathy—the fertile ground for tyranny and authoritarianism to rise unchecked. Ana is not speaking as a critic of rest, boundaries, or nervous system healing—she’s calling out the dangerous overconsumption and spiritual bypassing that’s replacing collective care with curated healing aesthetics. If you've ever felt like something is wrong—even while doing all the “right” healing rituals—this conversation is your mirror, your wake-up call, and your invitation back to human responsibility. Key Takeaways Self-care without social awareness becomes emotional neglect Overconsumption of healing content creates internal fragmentation, not wholeness Spiritual bypassing enables emotional numbing and disengagement from justice Apathy is not neutral—it is the breeding ground for tyranny Tyranny does not begin with violence—it begins with silence, distraction, and spiritual delusion Real healing includes moral courage, not just nervous system regulation The self-care industry profits from your emotional disconnection—and your silence   Insights & Quotes “Numb individuals create numb societies. And numb societies create the silence in which tyranny grows.” – Ana Mael “Fascism doesn’t begin with guns. It begins with people whispering affirmations while their neighbors are deported.” “You cannot reclaim your nervous system while abandoning your neighbor.” “If healing doesn’t bring you closer to justice and community—it is not healing. It is performance.” Who Is Ana Mael? Ana Mael is a Somatic Experiencing™ trauma therapist, genocide survivor, and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. She is the voice behind Exiled and Rising—a thought-leading podcast for survivors of war, injustice, and emotional displacement. Ana speaks not only as a professional but as someone who has lived through exile, war, and systems of silence. Through powerful language, somatic insight, and sharp cultural critique, Ana is building one of the most morally grounded, trauma-informed, and politically awake platforms in the mental health world today. PRE SALE FOR ANA TEACHINGS STARTS NOW ( SAVE $70 ) https://exiledandrising.mykajabi.com/offers/zBFUnBg3/checkout Get the Book: The Trauma We Don't Talk About : https://amzn.to/41SjKKL Premium Podcast Membership. FREE https://exiledandrising.supercast.com/ ❤️ Please donate . This podcast is independently run. No production teams or fancy edits. Only a truth & storytelling. https://buy.stripe.com/3cscOqbbXfZp0sU7ss Support & Subscribe: This podcast is ad-free and listener-powered. If Ana’s voice matters to you, help amplify it: ❤️ Share this episode with someone who’s been gaslit by the healing world Learn about the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center: https://www.somatictraumarecoverycenter.com/ Chapters (00:00:01) - What If Self-Care Is No More than a Means of Abs(00:10:18) - Self-Care as a Cult(00:18:00) - Exiled & Rising: The Need for Self-Care

    25 min
  5. 7 Trauma Recovery Truths from a Somatic PTSD Therapist and War Survivor

    Jun 28

    7 Trauma Recovery Truths from a Somatic PTSD Therapist and War Survivor

    When you survive wars truths are easy to spot. In this reflective episode, Ana Mael shares a series of powerful trauma recovery truths and nervous system insights drawn from her work as a somatic experiencing therapist for PTSD and trauma recovery, as well as from her own lived experience. These contemplative reflections are designed to be journaled with, brought into therapy sessions, discussed in support groups, and slowly sat with. In this episode, Ana explores: why trauma recovery is not endless optimization how survival strategies eventually become limitations hypervigilance, overthinking, over-planning, and over-controlling why grief is not regression but integration the fear of stillness in trauma survivors emotional freezing and high-functioning trauma functioning versus true healing why rest is biological necessity for nervous system recovery grief, heartbreak, and devastation as normal human experiences slowing down after trauma and PTSD how the nervous system moves from survival into healing somatic reflections on grief, healing, and recovery This episode speaks deeply to: trauma survivors people living with PTSD or CPTSD highly functioning individuals those exhausted from survival mode therapists and mental health professionals anyone navigating grief, emotional exhaustion, burnout, nervous system dysregulation, or healing after trauma Key themes include: trauma recovery, PTSD healing, somatic experiencing, nervous system regulation, grief and trauma, emotional healing, complex PTSD, high-functioning trauma, trauma therapy, survival mode, hypervigilance, emotional exhaustion, trauma-informed healing, grief integration, nervous system healing, healing beyond survival, emotional regulation, somatic trauma therapy, burnout and trauma, healing and rest, trauma podcast, trauma education, emotional overwhelm, and mental health recovery. This episode is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and remember: Healing is not another performance system. And functioning is not always healing. Chapters (00:00:01) - Anna Miles on PTSD and Trauma Recovery(00:00:48) - Five Rules of Trauma Recovery(00:08:18) - Post-Trauma Recovery: Be with Yourself

    10 min
  6. You Cannot Optimize Your Way Out of Trauma: Healing Is Not Another Hustle

    Jun 21

    You Cannot Optimize Your Way Out of Trauma: Healing Is Not Another Hustle

    Trauma Recovery Cannot Be Hacked. Healing Is Not Hustle. What if trauma recovery is not failing because you are not trying hard enough… but because you have been trying to survive your healing instead of grieving your pain? In this profound episode, Ana Mael explores one of the biggest misunderstandings in modern trauma and PTSD recovery: the belief that healing can be optimized through endless productivity, discipline, nervous system hacks, biohacking, routines, self-improvement, and performance culture. Ana examines how survival strategies that once protected trauma survivors can later become barriers to emotional recovery. She speaks about the hidden exhaustion many people experience in therapy, healing spaces, wellness culture, startup culture, hustle culture, and social media optimization culture — where even healing itself becomes another form of over-functioning and survival. This episode explores: trauma recovery and high-functioning survival PTSD and over-optimization grief as a missing piece in healing nervous system exhaustion why trauma survivors struggle to slow down somatic healing and emotional integration why productivity culture harms trauma recovery unresolved grief and emotional suppression hypervigilance, over-functioning, and survival identity the fear of stillness in trauma survivors why healing cannot be treated like a performance system the difference between functioning and true recovery Ana also explores the concept of the “unwept soul” — the grief that remains stored in the body when survivors are never given permission to mourn what happened, what was lost, and who they had to become in order to survive. names a hidden crisis happening inside modern trauma recovery: Many trauma survivors are no longer only exhausted from trauma — they are exhausted from trying to heal trauma through endless performance, optimization, and survival efforting. That is a very important insight. The piece gives language to an experience many people quietly carry but cannot articulate: “Why do I feel exhausted even from healing?” Ana answers this directly. Because healing itself has started to mirror survival. That is the core impact of the piece. Why this resonates deeply Most trauma survivors already live with nervous systems organized around: hypervigilance anticipation over-functioning productivity control perfectionism emotional overriding urgency And modern healing culture often unknowingly reinforces those exact same survival patterns. More: routines tracking discipline regulation systems hacks workshops supplements productivity healing goals The piece exposes this paradox brilliantly: The same survival intelligence that once protected people can later prevent them from recovering. That realization is deeply relieving for many listeners. Because it removes shame. It shifts trauma survivors from: “I am failing healing.” to: “My nervous system may still be surviving instead of grieving.” That is a profound shift. Why it is psychologically important The piece restores legitimacy to grief. Modern culture tolerates: performance resilience optimization achievement functioning But struggles with: devastation slowness mourning emotional collapse surrender deep grief Ana rehumanizes healing. She says: grief is not weakness rest... Chapters (00:00:00) - Trauma Recovery: Optimizing Our Grief(00:06:44) - How to Heal From Trauma(00:13:18) - Anna Mail on PTSD and Trauma Recovery

    14 min
  7. Over-Forgiveness: When Forgiveness Becomes Self-Betrayal

    Jun 14

    Over-Forgiveness: When Forgiveness Becomes Self-Betrayal

    Forgiveness Culture Keeps You in Harm. What if forgiveness is not setting you free… but slowly teaching you to abandon yourself? What if, for many trauma survivors, forgiveness became a survival strategy rooted in fear, conditioning, obedience, and self-abandonment? In this deeply honest episode, Ana explores the hidden psychological and cultural burden of over-forgiveness — the pressure to endlessly understand, excuse, tolerate, and absorb harm while abandoning your own truth, boundaries, rage, grief, and dignity. This episode examines how forgiveness can sometimes become a tool of silence rather than liberation, especially for women raised inside systems of obedience, emotional suppression, patriarchy, trauma bonding, spiritual bypassing, and people-pleasing conditioning. Ana unpacks: the difference between healing forgiveness and over-forgiveness why trauma survivors often feel pressured to “be the bigger person” how forced forgiveness impacts the nervous system and PTSD recovery the link between over-forgiveness, self-betrayal, and chronic trauma why accountability, justice, grief, and boundaries matter in healing how spirituality and wellness culture can unintentionally reinforce silence the somatic impact of suppressing anger and truth why forgiveness without safety and repair does not create nervous system healing This episode is for anyone who has been told: “Just forgive.” “Let it go.” “They did their best.” “You need to move on.” “You are not spiritual enough if you cannot forgive.” Ana offers a different perspective: Healing is not abandoning yourself to keep others comfortable. This is a powerful conversation on trauma, PTSD, emotional abuse, grief, self-respect, boundaries, women’s conditioning, nervous system survival, and reclaiming personal truth. If you are exhausted from carrying the burden of endless understanding while your pain remains unseen, this episode may deeply resonate with you. This episode is strongly feminist and culturally critical because it challenges a social system that has historically normalized women’s emotional endurance while minimizing their pain, anger, boundaries, and need for justice. But what makes it powerful is that it does not do this through slogans or ideology. It does it through trauma psychology, nervous system reality, and lived emotional experience. That gives the feminist critique much more depth. Why this is a feminist piece At its core, the episode argues: Women have often been socially conditioned to over-forgive in order to preserve relationships, family systems, male comfort, social harmony, and cultural stability — even at the cost of themselves. That is fundamentally feminist analysis. The episode exposes how forgiveness has historically been gendered differently. Women are often taught: tolerate more understand more absorb more sacrifice more empathize more endure more explain away harm prioritize connection over self-protection And when women stop doing this, they are often labeled: bitter cold difficult unloving dramatic selfish unforgiving not spiritual enough not evolved enough The episode directly critiques this conditioning. That is feminist critique because it examines: power gender expectations emotional labor obedience systems silence self-sacrifice relational inequality The most feminist idea in the episode The deepest feminist line of inquiry is: What if forgive... Chapters (00:00:00) - Forgive and You Will Be Free(00:01:28) - Forgiving Too Much(00:02:37) - Over Forgiveness: The Problem(00:15:34) - Forgiveness is a freely chosen action(00:17:10) - Forgiveness in Spiritual Communities and Stupid Culture(00:31:37) - Exile in Rising: Questions for Forgivers

    32 min
  8. When Someone Else’s Confidence Silences Your Truth | Trauma, Authority Obedience, and Self-Trust

    Jun 7

    When Someone Else’s Confidence Silences Your Truth | Trauma, Authority Obedience, and Self-Trust

    Are you trusting authority more than yourself? It starts with being punished for indenpendet thought and individuality.  In this profound episode, Ana Mael explores the trauma of obedience, authoritarian conditioning, patriarchal systems, inherited submission, and the nervous system fear that develops when questioning authority once felt dangerous. ________________________ ANA TEACHINGS & PROGRAMS https://exiledandrising.mykajabi.com/store Read the Book: The Trauma We Don't Talk About https://amzn.to/41SjKKL ________________________ Drawing from her work as a somatic experiencing therapist for PTSD and trauma recovery, her lived experience growing up through war and authoritarian systems, and years of working with trauma survivors, Ana explores how obedience becomes embedded inside the nervous system itself. This episode explores: trauma of obedience authoritarian family systems complex PTSD and self-doubt why trauma survivors struggle to trust themselves obedience trauma and nervous system conditioning fear of authority emotional abuse and psychological control patriarchy and trauma religious trauma and inherited submission narcissistic family systems internalized surveillance why questioning authority feels dangerous somatic trauma recovery and self-trust how certainty from others can silence your truth unlived life, regret, bitterness, and chronic following reclaiming independent thought after trauma healing from authoritarian conditioning self-trust after trauma and PTSD Ana explains how many trauma survivors were conditioned from childhood not to question: fathers mothers religious leaders coaches governments bosses communities systems of power And over time, someone else’s certainty began feeling safer than their own instincts. This episode also explores: why confidence does not equal truth how false authority becomes psychologically internalized why independent thought can trigger fear, panic, guilt, nausea, and dread how trauma survivors develop hypervigilance around disagreement and disobedience why many people remain emotionally trapped inside obedience-based systems long after physically leaving them the grief around the unlived life created through chronic following and self-abandonment Ana introduces the concept of “internalized authority” — when the nervous system continues carrying the authoritarian figure internally even after the environment is gone. This episode is especially important for: trauma survivors people living with PTSD or CPTSD survivors of narcissistic abuse survivors of authoritarian parenting people raised in rigid religions or patriarchal systems therapists and mental health professionals people struggling with self-trust and chronic self-doubt anyone healing from emotional suppression, fear, obedience conditioning, or identity loss Key themes include: trauma recovery, PTSD recovery, CPTSD healing, obedience trauma, authority trauma, emotional abuse recovery, nervous system healing, somatic experiencing, self-trust after trauma, complex trauma, narcissistic abuse, religious trauma, patriarchal conditioning, authoritarian parenting, emotional suppression, people pleasing, trauma and self-doubt, internalized fear, inherited trauma, survival conditioning, healing from control, tra... Chapters (00:00:02) - When Other People's Confidence Replies With Your Own(00:00:38) - Don't Believe in Other People's Confidence(00:09:30) - Confidence and Truth in Trauma Recovery(00:25:22) - Questions of Authority in Trauma Healing(00:34:51) - Understanding Trauma and Its Healing

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What happens to the nervous system when survival becomes identity? Exiled & Rising is a trauma-focused podcast exploring nervous system regulation, shame repair, displacement, boundaries, and dignity-centered healing in a world that often silences collective trauma. Hosted by integrative somatic trauma specialist Ana Mael, this podcast bridges advanced trauma science with lived experience of war and collective violence — offering grounded, justice-aware healing beyond surface-level self-help. Each episode blends: • Nervous system education • Somatic trauma recovery tools • Boundary and shame repair • Reflections on exile, identity, and belonging • Conversations on trauma justice and systemic harm This is not mindset work. This is bottom-up nervous system repair. Exiled & Rising is especially relevant for: • Survivors of war, displacement, and collective trauma • Immigrants navigating identity rupture • Adult children of exiled and displaced families • Those estranged from family or faith communities • Person seeking somatic approaches to PTSD and complex trauma recovery • Clinicians interested in dignity-centered trauma frameworks Rather than isolating healing from context, this podcast examines how trauma lives in the body — and how justice, sovereignty, and regulation must coexist. Meet Your Host Ana Mael (MSc, SEP, TEB, TST) is an integrative somatic trauma practitioner and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. Her work is informed by lived experience of war and collective violence and grounded in advanced training in Somatic Experiencing®, Transforming Touch®, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, trauma memory reconsolidation, and attachment repair. She specializes in working with survivors of war, displacement, systemic harm, and complex trauma — helping clients restore nervous system stability, dignity, and embodied sovereignty. She is the author of the bestselling books The Trauma We Don’t Talk. Learn more about her work at the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center:
https://www.somatictraumarecoverycenter.com/ — Support & Resources Read The Trauma We Don’t Talk About
https://amzn.to/41SjKKL ❤️ Support the podcast
https://exiledandrising.castos.com/donate Explore all programs: https://exiledandrising.mykajabi.com/store She lives in Toronto, Canada. Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes and does not replace individualized mental health care. Please consult a licensed provider for personal treatment.

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