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Statement · System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation

• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Welcome to System Speak, a podcast about Complex Trauma and Dissociation.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: It's our story, our learning, and the ideas we've been working with as they've unfolded over time. Earlier episodes give context for where we are now, and current episodes may engage more advanced material, harder content, or reference earlier conversations. A few things to remember as you listen. The podcast is education, reflection, and storytelling. It's not therapy, and listening doesn't create a relationship.
• 0:45
  Although I am a therapist, I am not in that role here, and nothing that I share is individualized clinical advice. Every system, every internal world, all of your own stories are all different and you take up your own shape. What we share about ours won't translate directly to yours. It isn't meant to. We're all different, and all of our stories matter.
• 1:09
  As always, take care of yourself during and after listening, and we are so glad you're here.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: In conclusion of the fake claiming discussion, we offer this statement. Some of you have known there were legal matters open across this past year, and that while those cases were open, we were not able to speak about them. These matters have now concluded, and we want you to hear from us rather than sideways. Both the court and the board has copies of all related legal documents. Last spring, a court granted a protective order with me and my family as the protected party, as well as systems speak projects, including the community and the symposiums, also being protected as part of my work.
• 2:11
  The judge found that the conduct against me was cyberstalking and harassment. The court record is public and extensive. In the course of that, we provided documentation about the podcast, the nonprofit and its financials, the symposiums, and our own history. All of our documentation, financials, and paperwork are in order, and the online attack was clearly harassment and cyberstalking, which is why we were awarded the protective order. Separately, complaints were filed against my counseling license with the state licensing board.
• 2:48
  The board reviewed my clinical work, my documentation, my billing, and session recordings. They also looked at our work on the podcast, the books, the community, and the symposiums. We received notice last month that the licensing board had also ruled in our favor, dismissing the complaints as invalid and the allegations as false and their decision to close the case entirely. We are grateful to all of you who stayed steady while we were quiet, who were patient when we could not answer direct questions, and who kept doing your own work in the meantime. That is healthy.
• 3:24
  That is good and right. That steadiness held something for us that we cannot hold ourselves. You all, as a community, held this community together. Thank you for believing in us and yourselves and what we are trying to build together. We also think that community grew in maturity and in health during this year, and that is something we can be proud of, all of us.
• 3:52
  There will be more on the podcast this fall. Mostly, we wish to move forward with our attention on ourselves, our family who has been incredibly wounded and impacted by all of this, and our work, including our liberated presence here. This is what safety looks like for us, staying connected and congruent with our own values, each of us doing that work individually, parallel to one another and together. This year has been very, very hard, but I wouldn't trade for anything, the friendships that grew or outgrew or what I have learned through it all. We have witnessed who stayed.
• 4:38
  We have witnessed who were there to focus on themselves and their own work all along. We have seen who lived congruent to their values, and we thank you for being you. The podcast continues. The community continues. Thank yous for being here.
• 5:20
  Thank you so much for listening to us and for all of your support for the podcast, our books, and them being donated to survivors and the community. It means so much to us as we try to create something that's never been done before, not like this. Connection brings healing, and healing brings hope.