If You Fear Tyranny or Dictatorship: Welcome!

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 displaced, exiled, and silenced voices—not just a podcast

• A justice-centered somatic space, not a self-improvement brand 

 

This is not just another podcast about trauma healing.
This is a sanctuary for the unseen.
A movement for those displaced, silenced, exiled, or made invisible—by war, by borders, by systemic injustice, or even by their own families.

In this episode, I share what Exiled and Rising stands for—and why it matters now more than ever.
If you have been forced into exile, or if you carry the invisible exile inside your body, this space was created for you.

Here, we move from trauma to resilience.
From wound to resistance.
From silence to voice.

Whether you are a survivor of war, genocide, displacement, oppression, or emotional exile—you belong here.
This is your place to rise.

 

A Quiet Act of Resistance

Exiled and Rising is not about individual self-improvement.
It is about rebuilding dignity, voice, and safety in a world that punishes vulnerability.

Here, we refuse to abandon the sacredness of our stories.
Here, we rise—not alone, but together.

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Join the Membership Community

If you are ready to stop surviving in silence and start rising with others who understand, follow the link in the show notes to join our private paid membership.

Inside the community, you’ll find:

• Exclusive somatic practices, courses and workshops

• Embodied healing frameworks rooted in justice, dignity, and comapssionate care

• A space where your story is honored, not pathologized

• Book Club
• Live Somatic Prayer Room

You are not invisible here.
You are not alone.
And you are welcome.

Join the Exiled and Rising Community Here 

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This podcast is independently run. No production teams. Fancy edits. Only a truth storytelling.

Meet Your Host – Ana Mael

Ana Mael is a genocide and war survivor, somatic trauma therapist, and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. She has dedicated her life’s work to helping survivors reclaim their identity, dignity, and self-trust after war, displacement, systemic oppression, and complex trauma.

Her podcast, Exiled and Rising, is not about surface-level healing. There are no platitudes, no quick fixes—only deep, uncompromising truth about what it takes to move from wound to resistance, from trauma to resilience, from exile to rising. Ana’s voice is a powerful force in the trauma field, bridging somatic therapy with real-world survival.

She is also the bestselling author of The Trau