Exiled & Rising: Trauma Recovery & Somatic Healing
Episodes
Decolonizing Prayer: What It Means in Healing Faith, Body, and Belonging
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Body Is Where God Speaks. In this episode of Exiled & Rising, Ana Mael — somatic experiencing therapist for trauma recovery and ancestral he...
Prayer for the Dark Night of the Soul: Somatic Healing Through Divine Presence
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
De-theologizing shame by making God intimate and embodied. This prayer is a profound embodiment of Ana’s entire body of work — it’s not si...
Why Withdrawal Is Necessary for Regulation : Winter Solstice Teachings
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exiled & Rising, Ana offers a Winter Solstice teaching on withdrawal — not as avoidance, pathology, or failure, but as a biol...
From Witch to Bitch: Breaking the Spell of Shrinking for Men
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She Stopped Shrinking. They Called Her a Bitch. Ana Mael explores how patriarchal conditioning has shaped generations of women to silence their power,...
Reclaim the Right to Accountability, Not Resilience: Path To True Trauma Healing
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does that mean? Resilience says: you got through it, amazing, keep going. Accountability says: you shouldn’t have had to “get through it”...
The Cost of Silence: When Asking for Help Feels Like a Burden
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Mael explores why trauma teaches us to stay silent, and how reclaiming your voice becomes the first act of healing. What happens when your body...
The Burden of Being the "Strong One": The Avoidance And The Insult Behind the Praise
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Insult That Silences Your Truth. In this episode of Exiled and Rising, Ana Mael delivers a rare, political critique of the “strong archytpe” ...
Are You The Trauma James Bond? The Vigilant PTSD Spy Who Always Scans the Exits
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some people enter a room and look for the best seat. Others enter and look for the exits. If you know where every door, window, and fire escape is bef...
The Pandemic of Resignation Syndrome: Not Wanting To Live. Not Wanting To Die. Explained By War Expert Therapist
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this pivotal episode, Ana Mael — trauma therapist, nervous-system specialist, and survivor of the Balkan wars — takes listeners into one of the...
Pleasure Is Shame: How Trauma Teaches You to Fear Joy
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana teaches that shame around pleasure is not morality — it’s trauma. Reclaiming joy is not betrayal of your past but devotion to your life. Ana M...
PTSD and the Conflict Inside: The Fight Between Rest and Survival
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A survivor’s nervous system toggles between collapse and compulsion; healing begins by honoring both protectors and learning to pause in micro-doses...
How to Explain to Others What You Need to Heal from Trauma
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana’s new Exiled & Rising episode — one of her most intimate and practical teachings on relational healing. Ana teaches that true healing...
Growing Up Feeling Like a Burden: Hidden Trauma of Being ‘Too Much'
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The burden wound begins in childhood. Being treated as “too much” or “a burden” by parents creates a deep, embodied wound. The imprint becomes...
Shamed for Being Different: For Those Othered, Silenced, and Made Small: BIPOC, Undocumented, Minorities, Exiled
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana dismantles the myth that shame is self-generated. She frames shame as something imposed from the outside—by abusers, toxic environments, and sys...
Fascism Starts With Your Self-Care (and You Don’t Even Know It)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Fascism begins not with violence but with silence — and if self-care replaces collective care, healing becomes complicity.” Ana Mael Fascis...
Tired Eyes: PTSD, Trauma Recovery & Somatic Therapy Tools for Healing Hypervigilance
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From scanning to sanctuary: A guided re-meeting with your own eyes as the first safe place after exile. Somatic Healing. Somatic Programs for Trauma R...
PTSP, Emotivna Trauma i Ubrzanje Terapije: Terapeut dijeli praktične savjete
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Da li tražiš način da olakšaš teret traume bez godina terapije? Ana Mael, somatska terapeutkinja za PTSP, deli jednostavne i praktične alate koj...
Thrown Off & Overpowered in a Meeting? STOP Anxiety & Panic Attacks at Work, 2 Effective THERAPIST Tools
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Practical grounding tools for acute panic – She offers listeners two simple, repeatable practices to interrupt spirals of panic in high-stakes ...
Panic Attacks & Anxiety for " NO Reason"? Explained By War Expert Somatic Therapist
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anxiety and Panic Attacks are not weakness — it is the body’s way of remembering. Trembling, shaking, racing heart, panic attacks — these are su...
Heal Your Deepest Wounds: A Guide for Trauma Survivors
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Book: The Trauma We Don't Talk About https://amzn.to/41SjKKL Key Takeaways Your roots may be wounded, but you are not only your wounds. Naming what ...
The inner battle inside the survivor’s body. Trauma PTSD Recovery
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana personifies the internal battle of trauma survival: one part of the self is exhausted and wants to collapse, while another part — fueled by inhe...
Why Receiving Love and Joy Feels Impossible. The Trauma Behind “How Dare You Want More”
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Book: The Trauma We Don't Talk About https://amzn.to/41SjKKL Why is it so easy to give — but so hard to receive? If you struggle to accept love, h...
Get Your Revenge. For ALL Abuse Victims
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is for every survivor of abuse, including those whose pain is resurfacing now with the release of the Epstein files. ❤️PLEASE: shar...
How Trauma From Injustice Shapes Our Inner Healing, Part 1
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We live in pandemic of injustic and injustice doesn’t disappear when ignored. It embeds itself in the body — in exhaustion, in sickness, in silenc...
How to Actually Talk With God (A Therapist's Guide)
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Hugs Feel Awkward, Intimacy Feels Impossible. Why does intimacy feel so hard — even with someone you love? Why do hugs feel stiff, awkward, or ...
When Intimacy Hurts: A Somatic Path to Healing
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Hugs Feel Awkward, Intimacy Feels Impossible. Why does intimacy feel so hard — even with someone you love? Why do hugs feel stiff, awkward, or ...
Warning Signs of Abuse Most Somatic Therapists Look For
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your body remembers what your mind tries to forget. Posture, voice, and eyes all carry the hidden signs of abuse — and once you know how to read the...
From Silent to Powerful: Your Journey Into Activism
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An activist is not defined by having a megaphone, a protest sign, or a nonprofit behind them. An activist is defined by what they choose to do with th...
How To Become An Activist: From Silent Observer to Finding Your Voice and Inner Power in Public
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An activist is not defined by having a megaphone, a protest sign, or a nonprofit behind them. An activist is defined by what they choose to do with th...
When Love Makes You Sick: The Face of Exhausted Woman. Emotional Abuse & Trauma Recovery
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the love you’re waiting for is making you sick? In this episode, somatic therapist Ana Mael exposes how emotional abuse carves exhaustion in...
Pedestals Are Dangerous.Question Me. Question Everyone: What Is Real Teaching?
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to Stop Outsourcing Your Critical Thinking? If you’ve ever caught yourself following a leader, teacher, or influencer without question — this ...
Changing Your Mind Isn’t Betrayal: It’s Your Freedom And Your Rights
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When You’ve Been Trained to Survive, Not to Think” By a War Trauma Therapist & Founder of Somatic Trauma Recovery Center Core Teaching: Ana ...
Why Self-Care INDUSTRY Is Now a THREAT to Democracy and Your Freedom. Breathe. Meditate. Obey.
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Mael’s piece is a fierce, urgent call to consciousness, exposing how the wellness industry, spiritual bypassing, and self-care culture are being...
Critical Thinking in the Age of Tyranny: A Survival Skill You Must Have Now: War, Fascism, AI
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stop Obeying. Start Thinking. At a time when professors are being silenced, protests are criminalized, and AI-generated propaganda floods our feeds, A...
No Ease, Just Survival: Hard Truth About PTSD by War Trauma Therapist
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
PTSD Living: That Cruel Voice In Your Head. Leading Therapist on War Trauma & Complex PTSD Recovery
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Cap...
You’re Not Healing Because You’re Fleeing: Somatic PTSD & Trauma Recovery Truth Telling
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana is fierce, compassionate, and unyieldingly grounded in truth-telling. She speaks directly to those living with trauma and PTSD—not with pity, no...
Fascism Doesn’t Start with Guns - It Starts with Obsession of Self Healing & Passive Liberalism
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana is sounding the alarm: fascism doesn’t begin with violence—it begins with apathy. It creeps in through: disinterest, detachment masked as ...
When Your Day Is Hard to Move Through – Somatic Tools for Trauma Healing
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 it is a deeply la...
You Were Silenced. Now You Lead. Rise From Trauma Of Being Invisible
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Mael’s episode “Wound of Non-Existence” is unapologetically radical excavation of one of the most overlooked traumas in the world: the traum...
"We Are Hiring Emotional Abused!": A Satirical Exposé on How Capitalism Preys on Emotional Abuse
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Praise, Obedience, Burnout: The Real Job Description for Trauma Survivors. Ana satirical monologue exposing how workplaces—especially those rooted i...
How Self-Care Became a Tool of Tyranny and Fascism — And You Didn’t Even Notice. You Got Played and Lost Moral Clarity!
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Fascism doesn’t begin with guns. It begins with people whispering affirmations while their neighbors are deported.” "Tyranny doesn’t begin wi...
Tyranny Can Begin Because You Lost Your Humanity to the Self-Care Industry
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When self-care becomes a lifestyle brand instead of a path to embodied truth, we begin to shrink. We forget to protest. We ignore each other’s pain....
You Lost Your Humanity to the Self-Care Industry
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With piercing clarity and somatic wisdom, Ana Mael challenges the healing world’s obsession with self-love, self-mastery, and self-optimization — ...
Use This to Be Seen, Heard, and Validated: Statements List. Somatic Trauma Healing.
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever struggled to express what happened to you—or needed the right words to feel seen, heard, and validated—this episode is your lifelin...
It Was Just a Normal Childhood… Wasn’t It? For All Adults With Childhood Trauma
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode isn’t just healing—it’s cultural critique, political advocacy, and nervous system literacy woven together. In a landscape where "he...
You Need Justice, Not Breathwork: How Silence Shaped You & Society (Part 2)
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana is not just teaching about trauma. She’s renaming the moral and political architecture that protects it. She dismantles: Silence as safety S...
If You Fear Tyranny or Dictatorship: Welcome!
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Exiled and Rising isn’t just healing. It’s human rights. It’s survival. It’s resistance. It is : A refuge for the unseen A movement for di...
Haunting Truth: For All Adults with Childhood Trauma
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In haunting “Walk Home,” Ana Mael delivers something that is rare and profoundly necessary: A Language for the Unspoken This piece gives voice to ...
For Cold Bitches & Emotionless Men: The Strength Behind the Shield
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been called a “cold, distant bitch”? Or an emotionless prick? In this episode, Ana Mael reveals the untold story behind these labels...
Social Anxiety Isn't Just Nerves: The Trauma Behind Your Fear of Connection
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Social anxiety is not just shyness—it's a battle within your body, a fight for survival in a world that constantly demands you to be seen. But what ...
Prayer for Love - Without Losing Yourself
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A somatic prayer to call in love that holds, honors, and does not erase you. In this deeply soothing prayer of Exiled & Rising, Ana Mael offers ...
A Prayer for When It’s Too Much to Carry: Held in Grief
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you are mourning the loss of a loved one, the loss of home, the loss of safety, or the loss of faith in your country or community—this praye...
I Survived Genocide: This Is What I Didn't Survive—And You Won't Either
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this unfiltered, soul-witnessing episode of Exiled and Rising, Ana Mael reads directly from page 185 of her memoir The Trauma We Don’t Talk About...
You Need Justice, Not Breathwork: Imprisoned By Others – Part 1
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why healing becomes a prison when it doesn’t include justice, relational repair, and acknowledgement? In this direct, unfiltered episode of Exiled ...
Your Wound Is Your Medicine: Turn Harm Into Resistance, Justice, and Power
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Everything that was done to harm me became the medicine to heal me.” Ana transforms her lived experience—statelessness, war, violations—into ...
Prayer as Resistance: For Marginalized, Censored, Ostracized and Unseen
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Is Not Just a Prayer. This Is a Protest. This episode is a somatic and spiritual response to systemic exclusion. In a time when book bans, anti-i...
For the Anxious Hours When It's All Too Much: Somatic Prayer With Divine
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use somatic prayer for the moments when your nervous system feels pushed to the edge. Ana Mael offers more than words—she offers a relational space ...
You Don't Need To Forgive: Privileged Tool Of Silencing
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t owe forgiveness to anyone who hurt you. In this unapologetic and deeply validating episode, Ana Mael dismantles the harmful myth that for...
Terrible Knowledge: What Trauma Taught You That No One Else Can
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana’s own history as a genocide and war survivor roots this episode in lived experience, offering not abstract theory—but guidance forged in lived...
Withdrawn and Lonely: The Trauma of Not Being Welcomed
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Withdrawal is a deep somatic adaptation to chronic unsafety, invisibility, and social erasure. Ana identifies withdrawal not as a symptom to be “fi...
The Trauma of Obedience: Censorship and Somatic Cost of Silencing Yourself
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a time of increasing political instability, censorship, and erasure of marginalized voices and every other voice who wants to speak up, Ana Mael’...
Save Years in Therapy: The Critical First Step to Trauma & PTSD Healing
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve tried everything to heal but still feel stuck, this one crucial starting point can save you years in therapy. If healing still feels out o...
Prayer For Depression, Anxiety, And Mental Health: A Guided Somatic Prayer for Inner Piece
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Somatic Healing and the Power of Embodied Prayer. In moments of mental heaviness, when the mind is restless and the heart is exausted, let this prayer...
Prayer for Health and Healing Through Diagnosis and Recovery
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prayers have a deeply somatic impact, helping restore whole nervous system. Healing is not just physical—it is emotional, spiritual, and deeply pers...
When Self-Hatred and Self-Judgment Rob You of Another Day
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Self-hatred is not yours to carry. It was placed there - by somone else - not you. Trauma, neglect, and oppression distort how we see ourselves, buryi...
Not Wanting To Live And Not Wanting To Die: Resignation Syndrome – The Hidden Trauma State No One Talks About
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t want to die, but you don’t want to be here either. This is the space no one talks about, not even seasoned therapists,—the silent, hid...
Scared of Your Own Voice: Why Trauma Silences You & How to Reclaim It
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever felt afraid to speak up? To take up space? To hear your own voice in a room? At some point, many trauma survivors learn that silence is ...
Release the Burden You Carry: Somatic Tools to Stop Living in Endurance Mode
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trauma and PTSD often leaves us feeling burdened and caged in a state of endurance, as if survival means carrying everything alone. But what happens w...
Grief and Unprocessed Loss: Somatic Grieving for Trauma & PTSD Body ( Part 1)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Grief and Unprocessed Loss: How to identify and name what your body is grieving but your mind has ignored. Grief is not something you process in five...
When the World Feels Unsafe: Why Finding Safety in Your Body is Non-Negotiable for Survival
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Global crises are making the experience of feeling unsafe more real than ever. When the outside world feels dangerous—whether due to political uncer...
Why You Want to Disappear and Hide: The Science of Trauma Survival and Healing
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your trauma body didn’t want to die—but it did want to disappear. This episode of Exiled & Rising explores the survival intelligence of the bo...
Dissociation Is Not Your Weakness: Your Hidden Power of Survival & Trauma Healing
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trauma and PTSD can make you disconnected, emotionally numb, or lost in your own world. Say, THANK YOU! Do you find yourself zoning out during str...
The Wound of Non-Existence: The Hidden Core of Trauma & PTSD
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trauma is more than rejection; it is the erasure of your presence, voice, and needs. You learn to yield, avoid conflict, and suppress your own desire...