#traumasurvivors — Public Fediverse posts

Cannot recommend @[email protected] highly enough for anyone trying to recover from trauma. His posts on bluesky are a great daily tool. And now there’s this. And it’s free.
#CPTSD
#TraumaSurvivors
#ReclaimYourLifeFromYourAbusers

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sqmmihho2e3ctpfzlzdp3phs/post/3mxsiufvmss2x

"#CelestinMutuyimana, a postdoc in
#psychology has made a #film about #traumasurvivors. He is calling for greater support from the academic community for projects that translate research into practice."
#filmmaking #science
https://www.horizons-mag.ch/2026/03/05/filmmaking-is-a-powerful-tool-for-translating-research-findings/

Where The Ash Turns to Color: The Birth of ashRISE

Of the hundreds of characters I’ve written, the one that’s been the most impactful is likely Ash. A friend to ten-year-old Anna as she goes through abuse, on a personal level, Ash represents so much for me. He represents hope. He also represents the ability to completely redefine experiences from something traumatic to something into something manageable.

When I was nineteen, I volunteered to be a hotline specialist for the local rape and sexual abuse center in Nashville. The training for this was very hard. One of the most meaningful, and personally helpful, topics was neuropsychology – specifically the role your amygdala and hypothalamus play in stress and flashbacks. I created a story in which my hijacked amygdala was my very own “bodyguard” and the ‘diminished’ hypothalamus, its assistant. I redefined what was harmful into something that allowed me to feel just a little less broken.

The goal of this workshop series is to help others redefine the “ashes” of their lives into something empowering and hopeful by offering concrete, practical and unique coping strategies to help de-escalate anxiety, training on the brain and defense mechanisms, personal narratives, and the completion of a creative project. We identify the “smoke signals” and then shape them into something useful, allowing them to become flames of transformation and renewal.

Participants will receive a 90 page PDF toolkit with additional opportunities for reflection, helpful charts for identifying smoke signals and resource options to help ease the discomfort. Fire destroys… and renews. The key is in the recognition that, within us, exists a phoenix who cannot be broken or destroyed but will rise from within the flames. 

What is ashRISE?

There are years of my life I only remember in fragments. A glance. The smell of his breath.  The way I learned to make myself small enough to survive it.

Abuse doesn’t just end when the leaving happens. It lingers — in the way I hold my shoulders, in how I scan a room for danger, in the breath I forget to take. No one knew that my smile was just a well-dressed panic attack. My calm was a costume stitched from fear.

The turning point came quietly — not a breakthrough, just a slow, stubborn decision to stop hiding. I started learning how the nervous system stores survival. Polyvagal theory gave me words for what I’d lived: how we fight, flee, freeze — and how safety isn’t a thought, it’s a felt thing. I made up stories about my amygdala being my bodyguard that helped me understand how hard my body and my brain were working just to keep me safe. Understanding the science helped, but it wasn’t enough. I needed heart. I needed creativity. What I really needed was permission to be me. 

So, I started—and then kept— writing — not for publication, just to have somewhere honest to go. It was a space where it was okay to let the screams take up space, to not hide anymore. 

That’s where ashRise was born.

In the midst of the darkest storm, in the middle of our greatest pain, we can

R: Remember

what was lost; remember what the trauma cost; grieve for that.

I: Imagine

what it might feel like to step forward into the unchartered territory of tomorrow — a blank canvas for you to define. Like stained glass, you are beautiful and able as you are today.

S: Shape

and mold your steps forward – not by losing or forgetting the past but by bringing it with you, knowing you are supported and encouraged.

E: Empower

yourself with practical tools and techniques designed to help you feel present and capable of moving forward and achieving your dreams and goals not because of or in spite of your trauma but with it.

ashRISE is a six-week workshop I built for people like me — people who’ve endured and adapted and now want to transform. It’s part neuroscience, part creative rebellion. We start each session with practical techniques designed to help us feel safe and truly present, then move to learning the science of defense mechanisms. From there, we make something: what I call a Personal Transformation Project — a work of art, writing, or creation that turns your survival story into something visible. 

The first time I ran it, a woman told me, “This workshop is life-changing. The sessions feel like a sanctuary from the real world.” I cried at that because a sanctuary exactly what I had been trying to build — a place where survivors could be seen, heard and truly accepted without having to explain.

Every cohort teaches me something new. One man wrote music out of his anxiety patterns. Another woman stitched her divorce papers into a quilt. Each act, in its own strange beauty, said the same thing: I’m still here. People often mistake resilience for toughness. It’s not. It’s tenderness that’s lived through trauma. It’s knowing the fire nearly took you and lighting another match anyway.

I used to be afraid that healing meant diminishing the impact of the trauma. It doesn’t. Nothing replaces or makes up for the loss. Healing is simply recognizing that you are still as valuable as the you before the trauma was. That person you grieve for, the one you miss? Healing recognizes she’s still with you. 

For me, ashRise is the aftermath of survival turned inside out — the alchemy of turning pain into art, shame into story, memory into motion.

I still have hard days. I still flinch sometimes. But when I see the faces in that final session — people holding up what they’ve made from their own ash — I know this much:

We can’t rewrite what happened, but we can re-author what it means. And that’s what rising looks like.

Limited to 10 for an intimate & personal connection. 

Virtual. 

Free. 

NEXT COHORT BEGINS AUGUST 1 2026

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/google_gemini_update_prevents_disabling/

#HackerNews #GoogleGemini #Update #TraumaSurvivors #AppIssues #TechNews #PrivacyConcerns

@SabiLewSounds.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Share and give where possible. Staying sheltered depends on it. #urgent Hotel - Thursday, $600 www.paypal.com/pools/c/95QQ... #dementiacaretakers #DisabilityPrideMonth #traumasurvivors #homelessfamilies #MutualAidRequest #homelesscrowdfund

EMERGENCY HOUSING SUPPORT

Please help @SabiLewSounds

Spread the word and give where possible. Staying sheltered beyond Thursday depends on it.

There's been no new giving since last Thursday.

Hotel - Thursday, $600
Collected, $100
Deficit, $409
Weekly need, $1059
Monthly goal, $4879

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/95QQ4pjMMq

#dementiacaretakers
#DisabilityPrideMonth
#traumasurvivors
#homelessfamilies
#MutualAidRequest
#homelesscrowdfund

Please help @SabiLewSounds survive homelessness.
Sabi is a disabled, latina artist/musician, caring for her elderly mother with dementia.

Insurance - July 15th, $200
Hotel - July 18th, $600
Collected, $130
Deficit, $209
Weekly need, $1059
Monthly goal, $4879

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/95QQ4pjMMq

#disabled
#disabledartists
#disabledmusicians
#LatinaMusician
#dementiacaretakers
#homelessfamily
#mutualaid
#traumasurvivors
#disabledmutualaid
#DisabilityPrideMonth
#crowdfund
#CPTSDsucks
#dementia

Please help @SabiLewSounds and family stay housed.
The weekly goal stands at $52/$850, with $798 still needed.

$50 phone
- Wed, July 10th
$600 Hotel
- Thu, July 11th
$200 car insurance
- Mon, July 15th

For those unable to help directly, it's completely understandable.
Please consider helping indirectly, by sharing with those you know.
Every $1 counts.

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/95QQ4pjMMq

#traumasurvivors
#cptsd
#supportdisabledartists
#disabilitypride
#mutualaid
#poverty

The recording of today's meditation class about healing from trauma is now available to listen to. - https://vero.co/seb_tmg/pPFL-ZSqVsnngLCHhjdGwXS8

#HealingFromTrauma #TraumaRecovery #TraumaSurvivors #InnerHealing #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #PTSD #EmotionalHealing #Mindfulness #Meditation #SelfCompassion #SelfLove #Resilience #TraumaInformed #InnerStrength #InnerPeace #HealingJourney #TransformationalHealing #SelfCare #ThriveAfterTrauma #HopeAfterTrauma #TMGcommunity

@meditation @consciousliving

Live Podcast Recording: Healing from Trauma

Past hurts can hold us back, but healing is absolutely possible. In this podcast episode we want to offer practical tools to help you overcome trauma and rediscover your inner strength. Join us on the journey to wholeness. ✨

Join live on May 20 @ 8pm UTC - https://go.cosmicnation.co/TMGLivePodcast

@meditation @consciousliving

#GrowthMindset #InnerChildHealing #VeroWellness #TMGcommunity #MentalHealthAwareness #TraumaSupport #TraumaSurvivors #PTSD #Mindfulness

#MutualAid vs #Charity

To many I have been deemed unsuitable to receive care or support - even without money involved

It's hard to continue to fight for #SuicidePrevention #DisabilityPride and #TraumaSurvivors while I can barely get out of bed

I am too hungry and in pain to sleep

In 2 hours I have to be alert to look after my mom

In 2 hours my #EmotionalSupportBunny needs food and water and I haven't been able to clean his litter box

I'm dizzy, weak and probably anemic

I want to give up

I'm striving for survival but dreaming to live

You deserve kindness, compassion, care and support

Most of all you deserve your needs to be met

Fuck #poverty and fuck this broken system that puts #disabled lives in danger every day

To my fellow #marginalized #TraumaSurvivors #Spoonies #DynamicallyDisabled #InvisibleIllness #ChronicIlnness #ChronicPain warriors

Don't give up!

I'm working hard to try and stay safe and housed and fed until the event at the end of #February - find out more about that in my #LinkTree in my bio

I've had a tough week stuck in a #TraumaResponse and struggling with negative self talk, self abandonment and sadly #SuicidalIdeation

#SelfAdvocacy is really hard for #traumaSurvivors but this is why I work hard in hopes that you and everyone I can reach knows that you are not alone

Your story isn't over;

My #indigenous family was displaced from #Nicaragua because of the atrocities of #war

My immediate family was under the tirany of my #narcissistic and abusive father who left us as #impovrished #traumaSurvivors

Now as I feel the ground beneath me fall I am afraid to ask for my own needs

"They're better without me" I think

For whatever reason my friends think differently and ask me to keep going

Humans don't feel worth saving but the earth does

So I keep on breathing

Countless people fight through #generationalTrauma so many #traumaSurvivors are silenced for the sake of "parties" and "holiday fun"

We need to witness our wounds to keep growing and reaching towards life

This is what matters to me - one day at a time we can make it through - don't give up

Consider becoming a #BunSupporter today

https://ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds

I'm imagining a great gathering of survivors around an enormous bonfire.

We each speak of the secret shameful things that burn in us.

And after every single testimony, we call out together "this is not your shame!"

And then we dance and sing and cry together til the sun rises.

🔥
#trauma #abuse #survivor #traumasurvivors #shame #solidarity #collectivehealing

10 things not to say to #trauma
#survivors…

‘You can be a healthy part of a survivor's recovery by creating and strengthening a safe relationship with them.
Avoid saying, "You need to talk about it,” "It’s time to move on," or "Let me help you."
Instead simply suggest, “I’m here to listen if you need to talk," “I’m here for you," or “How can I help?”
…’

#TraumaSurvivors #ComplexTrauma #CPTSD
#WhatToSay #Communication #psychotherapy #Psychology

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/simplifying-complex-trauma/202210/10-things-not-say-trauma-survivors