Exiled & Rising: Trauma Recovery & Somatic Healing
From Wounds to Resistance, From Trauma to Resilience. Exiled & Rising: Trauma Recovery & Somatic Healing is a podcast that blends real-life survivor experiences from war and displacement, somatic healing expertise, and deep trauma recovery insights and tools—offering a space for those who have endured exile, trauma, statelessness and immigration to reclaim their identity, resilience, and healing journey. Through TRUE raw storytelling, somatic healing insights, and expert guidance, we move from survival to embodied self-mastery. Who It’s For: * OVERFUNCTIONING IMMIGRANTS, EXILED AND DISPLACED who overwork and overgive to prove their worth. * Survivors of war, genocide, forced displacement, and systemic oppression. * Refugees, stateless, undocumented, displaced and immigrants navigating identity loss. *Those healing from generational, cultural, and personal trauma of being marginalized. * Child of parents immigrants, exiled and displaced * Everyone exiled from their family, community, church beacuse of their identity and values *Those seeking to understand trauma through a body-based, somatic perspective thought by expert in the somatic field and complex trauma recovery in categories of horrors. What It Offers: Real Stories of Survival & Healing – Narratives from those who have endured and rebuilt. Reading War journals and human to human storytelling. Expert Trauma & Somatic Healing Insights – Practical tools and strategies for nervous system recovery. A Space for the Unseen & Cast Out – A platform that centers voices often ignored. From Wounds to Resistance, From Trauma to Resilience – A journey of reclaiming self-worth and identity. This is not just another trauma podcast. It is a home for the unseen, unheard, and erased. Trauma is not just an event—it is an exile from self. Healing is about returning home to your body, voice, and power. If you have survived war, genocide, exile, or systemic erasure—you belong here. This is not passive listening. Healing is an act of resistance, and you are part of it. Somatic healing is a reclamation of self. This podcast gives you tools to heal, reclaim, and rise. Exiled & Rising is a movement. It is about transformation, not just survival. It is about rewriting the narrative of exile and reclaiming the right to exist, take space, and heal loudly. Ana Mael is a host, genocide and war survivor, somatic therapist, founder of Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Ana Mael is the author of "The Trauma We Don’t Talk About"—a bestsellers in over 10 categories, including Mental Health, Personal Testimonies, and Memoirs.
