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Exiled & Rising: Trauma Recovery & Somatic Healing

This is not a podcast for the mainstream. This is for the silenced, the cast out, and those whose stories never made the headlines. A Groundbreaking Trauma Justice Podcast from a Genocide Survivor and Somatic...more

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No Ease, Just Survival: Hard Truth About PTSD by War Trauma Therapist

Episode 18

July 24, 2025

No Ease, Just Survival: Hard Truth About PTSD by War Trauma Therapist

Distilled Lesson: Ease is a privilege. Hypervigilance is the default of the trauma body. If peace feels impossible—it’s not your fault. Your body is...

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PTSD Living: That Cruel Voice In Your Head. Leading Therapist on War Trauma & Complex PTSD Recovery

Episode 14

July 18, 2025

PTSD Living: That Cruel Voice In Your Head. Leading Therapist on War Trauma & Complex PTSD Recovery

Ana’s piece, “That Cruel Voice In Your Head,” is one of her most intimate and clinically profound offerings yet. Through the metaphor of the...

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You’re Not Healing Because You’re Fleeing: Somatic PTSD & Trauma Recovery Truth Telling

Episode 14

July 10, 2025

You’re Not Healing Because You’re Fleeing: Somatic PTSD & Trauma Recovery Truth Telling

Ana is fierce, compassionate, and unyieldingly grounded in truth-telling. She speaks directly to those living with trauma and PTSD—not with pity, not with patronizing...

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Fascism Doesn’t Start with Guns - It Starts with Obsession of Self Healing & Passive Liberalism

Episode 14

July 07, 2025

Fascism Doesn’t Start with Guns - It Starts with Obsession of Self Healing & Passive Liberalism

Ana is sounding the alarm: fascism doesn’t begin with violence—it begins with apathy. It creeps in through: disinterest, detachment masked as spirituality, normalized silence,...

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When Your Day Is Hard to Move Through – Somatic Tools for Trauma Healing

Episode 13

July 05, 2025

When Your Day Is Hard to Move Through – Somatic Tools for Trauma Healing

Ana Mael’s episode is a quiet revolution in how we meet ourselves during trauma. It may seem gentle and simple on the surface, but...

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You Were Silenced. Now You Lead. Rise From Trauma Of Being Invisible

Episode 11

July 03, 2025

You Were Silenced. Now You Lead. Rise From Trauma Of Being Invisible

Ana Mael’s episode “Wound of Non-Existence” is unapologetically radical excavation of one of the most overlooked traumas in the world: the trauma of being...

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