Save Years in Therapy: The Critical First Step to Trauma & PTSD Healing

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 of reach, it’s not because you’re broken. It’s because healing doesn’t happen in isolation—it happens in a relational space your trauma therpist ( or you ) need do the on somatic embodied level between systems in your body and/or space around you.

In this episode of Exiled & Rising, Ana Mael, somatic therapist specializing in PTSD and trauma recovery, reveals the one fundamental truth that most people miss:

✔ Healing is not about doing more—it’s about finding a space where your body feels safe enough to release.

That space Ana Mael is calling Sacred Site Where Your Healing Begins. 

 

Exctracts: 

“Collapse is when the body resigns. Release is when the body trusts.”

“Healing is not about one massive transformation. It’s about accumulating small moments of safety and trust until they become your new reality.”

“When trauma lives in the body, urgency feels normal. But urgency does not heal. Safety does.”

 

Many trauma survivors mistake collapse for release, believing they are "letting go" when they are actually shutting down. True healing happens not in isolation but in a relational field—a space of trust where the body can finally exhale and using somatic tools. somatization is crucial to accelerate your trauma recovery. 

If you start here, you can save yourself years of frustration, missteps, and surface-level healing. 

❤️ Support the mission & keep the podcast alive and add free:    Donate

 

Core Thought: Healing starts not with effort, but with safety. Give your body a space where it feels safe to release, and watch how everything changes.

 

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✔ Why healing requires a relational field—NOT just body awareness or external techniques
✔ The difference between collapse and release—and why this distinction is critical for recovery
✔ How trauma convinces us that we must heal alone—and why this belief keeps us stuck
✔ What a relational field is, and how to access it—even if you don’t trust people
✔ Why your body cannot heal in isolation and how to create safety outside of traditional relationships
✔ A simple yet powerful somatic practice to start experiencing the shift from collapse to true release

If you’ve tried everything and still feel stuck, this episode will show you why.

 

---

Who This Episode is For:

• If you’ve been in therapy for years but still feel like something is missing, this episode will explain why.
• If you are a therapist and feel stuck with your clients
• If you feel deeply alone in your healing process, you’ll learn why trauma makes us withdraw—and how to reconnect safely.
• If traditional healing methods haven’t worked, you’ll discover what’s actually needed for your nervous system to feel safe enough to heal.
• If trusting people feels impossible due to past bet