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 Therapist.
Deeply embodied, politically urgent, and spiritually grounded space led by a therapist who survived war and genocide herself. Ana Mael is not just talking about trauma—she has lived it, survived it, and now guides others through it with radical clarity and compassion.
This podcast is a revolution in trauma conversations: it moves beyond mindset tips and breathwork into trauma justice, relational repair, and systemic truth-telling. Each episode invites listeners to stop healing in isolation—and to begin naming, reclaiming, and rising from what hurt them.
Exiled and Rising is for survivors of war, systemic injustice, and complex trauma—especially those living in exile from land, identity, or community.
With raw truth and radical tenderness, Ana Mael offers unfiltered guidance on how to heal when you’ve been cut off—literally or metaphorically—from your home, safety, or sense of self and how to raise up and call for justice.
“This podcast is not about surface-level healing. We are not fluffing the feathers or shaking the crystals here.”
No glamour edits. No AI voices. Just real voice, lived experience, and trauma-focused truth.
Social and Cultural Relevance:
Ana’s work is a mirror for our time. In a global climate of rising authoritarianism, censorship, and the silencing of marginalized voices, this podcast becomes both a somatic protest and a innate act of resistance.
“If you have been silenced… Welcome.”
Ana gives voice to the body in a time when speech itself is policed. This is especially potent for:
Activists and whistleblowers
Immigrants and undocumented individuals
Survivors of trauma who were never given words for what they endured
A deep-dive podcast blending somatic healing expertise, micro-teachings, and lived survivor experience. Each episode distills trauma recovery, nervous system insights, and political consciousness into guidance that helps you reclaim power, safety, and self.
This Podcast Is a Home For:
Overfunctioning Immigrants, Exiled & Displaced – Those who overwork to prove worth
Survivors of War, Genocide, & Systemic Oppression – Healing from identity loss and rebuilding life
Refugees, Stateless, Undocumented People – Navigating erasure and exile
Children of Exiled or Immigrant Parents – Carrying generational wounds
Those Ostracized from Family or Church – For who they are, what they believe, or how they love
Those Seeking Somatic Recovery – Learning to regulate and reconnect with the body
Anyone Ready to Resist Spiritual Bypassing – And choose embodied, justice-based healing
What It Offers:
Real Stories of Survival & Healing – From Ana’s own war journals to survivor interviews
Expert Somatic & Trauma Recovery Insights – Practical tools for regulation and healing
Space for the Cast Out – Centering those excluded from mainstream healing narratives
Healing as Activism – Moving from survival to embodiment, from harm to advocacy
Radical Human Truth – With no scripts, no glamour edits, no “fixing”—only truth
Premium Membership – What You Get in the Private Community
Take your healing deeper with exclusive, high-value content:
Extended, Deep-Dive Episodes – Personal stories and expert somatic breakdowns
Therapy-Based Takeaways – Direct applications for therapy, journaling, and integration
Keynotes & Summaries – Distilled insights to anchor your healing
Full Transcripts – For reflection, accessibility, and in-depth study
Bite-Sized Somatic Lessons – Micro-practices for nervous system healing
Science of Trauma – Research-backed techniques to help reset your body’s stress response
Listener Q&A + Expert Sessions – Ask Ana your questions and receive trauma-informed answers
Ad-Free Listening – No filler, no distractions, just healing and clarity
Meet Your Host: Ana Mael
Ana Mael is a genocide and war survivor, somatic therapist, and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. She has dedicated her life’s work to helping survivors of war, forced displacement, systemic oppression, and complex trauma reclaim their identity, dignity, and self-trust.
As a bestselling author, Ana’s book, The Trauma We Don’t Talk About, became a #1 bestseller in over 10 categories, including Mental Health, Personal Testimonies, and Memoirs.
Based in Toronto, Canada, Ana works directly with clients and educates mental health professionals and counselors on the complexities of displacement, exile, and war trauma recovery. She leads training programs, provides trauma-informed therapy, and conducts pioneering research to bridge the gap between somatic therapy and global crisis trauma care.
"From Trauma to Resilience. From Wounds to Resistance."
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for mental health treatment or doctor care and advise. Please consult your mental health and/or medical care provider for individualized care.
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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 Therapist.
Deeply embodied, politically urgent, and spiritually grounded space led by a therapist who survived war and genocide herself. Ana Mael is not just talking about trauma—she has lived it, survived it, and now guides others through it with radical clarity and compassion.
This podcast is a revolution in trauma conversations: it moves beyond mindset tips and breathwork into trauma justice, relational repair, and systemic truth-telling. Each episode invites listeners to stop healing in isolation—and to begin naming, reclaiming, and rising from what hurt them.
Exiled and Rising is for survivors of war, systemic injustice, and complex trauma—especially those living in exile from land, identity, or community.
With raw truth and radical tenderness, Ana Mael offers unfiltered guidance on how to heal when you’ve been cut off—literally or metaphorically—from your home, safety, or sense of self and how to raise up and call for justice.
“This podcast is not about surface-level healing. We are not fluffing the feathers or shaking the crystals here.”
No glamour edits. No AI voices. Just real voice, lived experience, and trauma-focused truth.
Social and Cultural Relevance:
Ana’s work is a mirror for our time. In a global climate of rising authoritarianism, censorship, and the silencing of marginalized voices, this podcast becomes both a somatic protest and a innate act of resistance.
“If you have been silenced… Welcome.”
Ana gives voice to the body in a time when speech itself is policed. This is especially potent for:
Activists and whistleblowers
Immigrants and undocumented individuals
Survivors of trauma who were never given words for what they endured
A deep-dive podcast blending somatic healing expertise, micro-teachings, and lived survivor experience. Each episode distills trauma recovery, nervous system insights, and political consciousness into guidance that helps you reclaim power, safety, and self.
This Podcast Is a Home For:
Overfunctioning Immigrants, Exiled & Displaced – Those who overwork to prove worth
Survivors of War, Genocide, & Systemic Oppression – Healing from identity loss and rebuilding life
Refugees, Stateless, Undocumented People – Navigating erasure and exile
Children of Exiled or Immigrant Parents – Carrying generational wounds
Those Ostracized from Family or Church – For who they are, what they believe, or how they love
Those Seeking Somatic Recovery – Learning to regulate and reconnect with the body
Anyone Ready to Resist Spiritual Bypassing – And choose embodied, justice-based healing
What It Offers:
Real Stories of Survival & Healing – From Ana’s own war journals to survivor interviews
Expert Somatic & Trauma Recovery Insights – Practical tools for regulation and healing
Space for the Cast Out – Centering those excluded from mainstream healing narratives
Healing as Activism – Moving from survival to embodiment, from harm to advocacy
Radical Human Truth – With no scripts, no glamour edits, no “fixing”—only truth
Premium Membership – What You Get in the Private Community
Take your healing deeper with exclusive, high-value content:
Extended, Deep-Dive Episodes – Personal stories and expert somatic breakdowns
Therapy-Based Takeaways – Direct applications for therapy, journaling, and integration
Keynotes & Summaries – Distilled insights to anchor your healing
Full Transcripts – For reflection, accessibility, and in-depth study
Bite-Sized Somatic Lessons – Micro-practices for nervous system healing
Science of Trauma – Research-backed techniques to help reset your body’s stress response
Listener Q&A + Expert Sessions – Ask Ana your questions and receive trauma-informed answers
Ad-Free Listening – No filler, no distractions, just healing and clarity
Meet Your Host: Ana Mael
Ana Mael is a genocide and war survivor, somatic therapist, and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. She has dedicated her life’s work to helping survivors of war, forced displacement, systemic oppression, and complex trauma reclaim their identity, dignity, and self-trust.
As a bestselling author, Ana’s book, The Trauma We Don’t Talk About, became a #1 bestseller in over 10 categories, including Mental Health, Personal Testimonies, and Memoirs.
Based in Toronto, Canada, Ana works directly with clients and educates mental health professionals and counselors on the complexities of displacement, exile, and war trauma recovery. She leads training programs, provides trauma-informed therapy, and conducts pioneering research to bridge the gap between somatic therapy and global crisis trauma care.
"From Trauma to Resilience. From Wounds to Resistance."
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for mental health treatment or doctor care and advise. Please consult your mental health and/or medical care provider for individualized care.
How Trauma From Injustice Shapes Our Inner Healing, Part 1
We live in pandemic of injustic and injustice doesn’t disappear when ignored. It embeds itself in the body — in exhaustion, in sickness, in silence.
Ana Mael wrote "With Smirk, Injustice Spoke Back" to give Injustice a voice. Not an abstract idea, but a force that grows when denied, minimized, or dismissed. Injustice speaks through our nervous systems, through our relationships, and through the systems that profit when we turn away from each other. T
his is a spoken word poem and somatic monologue about what happens when Injustice finally answers back. It is raw, embodied, and prophetic — a reminder that healing cannot happen without truth, and justice cannot be ignored without consequence.
If you’ve ever felt ignored, denied, dismissed, minimized — this piece speaks for you. If you’re drawn to spoken word poetry that confronts truth, this performance will resonate. If you’re interested in trauma healing, somatics, embodiment, or social justice, this is for you.
⚡ If this piece speaks to you, please share it widely. Someone who needs to hear these words will find them through you. Second part will be released soon. Subscribe and you will be notified.
Poem ( please link back to this video if you are using it on your platforms ).
With Smirk, Injustice Spoke Back ( by Ana Mael )
You said: Ignore it. Deny it. Withdraw. Dismiss it. Walk around it. Justify it. Minimize it. Just don’t deal with it.
And Injustice said back: The more you ignore me, the more you deny me, the more you withdraw from me, the more you dismiss me, the more you minimize me—
the more I will grow. I will rise. I will scream louder into your vanishing face. As if you haven’t sickened already.
And then I will catch you. I will suffocate you and whisper in your face:
You ignored me. You denied me. You walked around me. You dismissed me. You justified me. You minimized me. You refused me.
As you hover in that place of almost-death, I will stop time so you can feel what it means to live forever in the “about to die” state of life.
For every hour, every day, every week, every year you witnessed me and still ignored me, denied me, withdrew from me, dismissed me, justified me, minimized me—
I will make you feel it back.
I will destroy you with your own poison— not with fury, not with speed, but with waiting terror.
The same waiting I endured as you ignored me, denied me, withdrew from me, dismissed me, justified me, minimized me.
You refused to face me. Now I face you.
Every hour. Every day. Every week. Every year.
You will remember. You will recall your life.
And you know— better than anyone— what it feels like:
to be ignored, to be denied, to be withdrawn from, to be dismissed, to be walked around, to be minimized, to be left undealt with.
I will do to you what you did to me— as it was once done to you.
And the cycle will never end until you see me, stand with me, hold me, act with me, for me.
Only then will you realize: It is not me. It is not you.
It is them.
Those who allowed us one thing: to ignore each other, to deny each other, to withdraw from each other, to dismiss each other, to walk away from each other, so we never face each other.
As long as we scrutinize each other, as long as our gaze is not on them, as long as we are not united— they will keep their smirk.
We release the pain of injustice done by them upon...
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 Therapist.
Deeply embodied, politically urgent, and spiritually grounded space led by a therapist who survived war and genocide herself. Ana Mael is not just talking about trauma—she has lived it, survived it, and now guides others through it with radical clarity and compassion.
This podcast is a revolution in trauma conversations: it moves beyond mindset tips and breathwork into trauma justice, relational repair, and systemic truth-telling. Each episode invites listeners to stop healing in isolation—and to begin naming, reclaiming, and rising from what hurt them.
Exiled and Rising is for survivors of war, systemic injustice, and complex trauma—especially those living in exile from land, identity, or community.
With raw truth and radical tenderness, Ana Mael offers unfiltered guidance on how to heal when you’ve been cut off—literally or metaphorically—from your home, safety, or sense of self and how to raise up and call for justice.
“This podcast is not about surface-level healing. We are not fluffing the feathers or shaking the crystals here.”
No glamour edits. No AI voices. Just real voice, lived experience, and trauma-focused truth.
Social and Cultural Relevance:
Ana’s work is a mirror for our time. In a global climate of rising authoritarianism, censorship, and the silencing of marginalized voices, this podcast becomes both a somatic protest and a innate act of resistance.
“If you have been silenced… Welcome.”
Ana gives voice to the body in a time when speech itself is policed. This is especially potent for:
Activists and whistleblowers
Immigrants and undocumented individuals
Survivors of trauma who were never given words for what they endured
A deep-dive podcast blending somatic healing expertise, micro-teachings, and lived survivor experience. Each episode distills trauma recovery, nervous system insights, and political consciousness into guidance that helps you reclaim power, safety, and self.
This Podcast Is a Home For:
Overfunctioning Immigrants, Exiled & Displaced – Those who overwork to prove worth
Survivors of War, Genocide, & Systemic Oppression – Healing from identity loss and rebuilding life
Refugees, Stateless, Undocumented People – Navigating erasure and exile
Children of Exiled or Immigrant Parents – Carrying generational wounds
Those Ostracized from Family or Church – For who they are, what they believe, or how they love
Those Seeking Somatic Recovery – Learning to regulate and reconnect with the body
Anyone Ready to Resist Spiritual Bypassing – And choose embodied, justice-based healing
What It Offers:
Real Stories of Survival & Healing – From Ana’s own war journals to survivor interviews
Expert Somatic & Trauma Recovery Insights – Practical tools for regulation and healing
Space for the Cast Out – Centering those excluded from mainstream healing narratives
Healing as Activism – Moving from survival to embodiment, from harm to advocacy
Radical Human Truth – With no scripts, no glamour edits, no “fixing”—only truth
Premium Membership – What You Get in the Private Community
Take your healing deeper with exclusive, high-value content:
Extended, Deep-Dive Episodes – Personal stories and expert somatic breakdowns
Therapy-Based Takeaways – Direct applications for therapy, journaling, and integration
Keynotes & Summaries – Distilled insights to anchor your healing
Full Transcripts – For reflection, accessibility, and in-depth study
Bite-Sized Somatic Lessons – Micro-practices for nervous system healing
Science of Trauma – Research-backed techniques to help reset your body’s stress response
Listener Q&A + Expert Sessions – Ask Ana your questions and receive trauma-informed answers
Ad-Free Listening – No filler, no distractions, just healing and clarity
Meet Your Host: Ana Mael
Ana Mael is a genocide and war survivor, somatic therapist, and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. She has dedicated her life’s work to helping survivors of war, forced displacement, systemic oppression, and complex trauma reclaim their identity, dignity, and self-trust.
As a bestselling author, Ana’s book, The Trauma We Don’t Talk About, became a #1 bestseller in over 10 categories, including Mental Health, Personal Testimonies, and Memoirs.
Based in Toronto, Canada, Ana works directly with clients and educates mental health professionals and counselors on the complexities of displacement, exile, and war trauma recovery. She leads training programs, provides trauma-informed therapy, and conducts pioneering research to bridge the gap between somatic therapy and global crisis trauma care.
"From Trauma to Resilience. From Wounds to Resistance."
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for mental health treatment or doctor care and advise. Please consult your mental health and/or medical care provider for individualized care.
