<p><strong><em>Ryder Fox beckons us to step into deeply nuanced spaces with bravery and heart—to ensure that lives are not only saved, but poised to thrive.</em></strong></p><p>Today’s episode features a moving and deeply human conversation with <strong>Ryder Fox, founder of Stronger U and co-founder of Thrive Lifeline</strong>—a community-rooted, non-carceral crisis support organization prioritizing safety, consent, and agency for multiply-marginalized communities including DID/OSDD systems.</p><p>Ryder invites us to rethink everything we’ve been taught about “safety,” crisis intervention, and care. They speak from a place few are willing—or able—to go: lived experience that includes extreme trauma, forced intervention, chronic illness, and surviving without language, housing, or community.</p><p>Now, as a peer support trainer and advocate for plural systems, Ryder offers a path toward crisis response rooted in dignity, dimensionality, and real respect for autonomy.</p><p>Together, we explore:</p><p>* Why traditional crisis response often retraumatizes plural systems</p><p>* The difference between “managing risk” and actually offering support</p><p>* What it means to hold space for complexity instead of controlling it</p><p>* How to train helpers to recognize plurality and internal experience</p><p>* Why forced care often perpetuates the very harm it claims to prevent</p><p>* What dimensionalized, relational care actually looks like</p><p><strong>This conversation isn’t easy—but it’s necessary. Ryder leads us there with clarity, fierce compassion, and an unwavering belief that we can—and must—do better.</strong></p><p>💬 Whether you’re a DID/OSDD System, clinician, or supporter, —this episode is for anyone ready to reimagine what real crisis <strong>care</strong> can be.</p><p>⏱️ TIMESTAMPS</p><p>00:00 — Welcome & intro to Ryder Fox (Thrive Lifeline + Stronger U)</p><p>01:00 — Growing up marginalized & surviving extreme trauma</p><p>06:00 — Why crisis support systems continue to harm plural people</p><p>10:00 — How traditional responders misread DID/OSDD crises causing escalation</p><p>14:00 — Forced hospitalization: retraumatizing instead of protecting</p><p>18:00 — Carceral vs non-carceral crisis care: what the terms really mean</p><p>20:00 — What actually happens when a plural system contacts Thrive Lifeline</p><p>26:00 — Dimensionalizing care vs flattening a person to the crisis</p><p>33:00 — Systems as experts of their own survival</p><p>41:00 — Forced care and the mandate of silence</p><p>43:00 — “Keep the body breathing” vs honoring the actual human</p><p>44:00 — Stronger U Wellness: pathways for plural healing + clinician education</p><p>47:00 — How to connect with Stronger U (even when your brave window is tiny)</p><p>50:00 — From survival to thriving: relational pathways for plural systems</p><p>Resources:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://thrivelifeline.org/"><strong>Thrive Lifeline</strong></a> Non-carceral<strong> crisis, warmline, and group support</strong>, centering multiply marginalized communities. Fully grassroots. Built by and for community.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://strongeruwellness.com/"><strong>Stronger U</strong></a><strong> a liberatory wellness and education collective</strong> providing immersive, trauma-informed, and non-carceral services to organizations, private practices, individual practitioners, and survivors. Our mission is to co-create sustainable systems of care that uplift those who are most often excluded by traditional models—through strategic consulting, certification programs, coaching, and community-based programming. <a target="_blank" href="https://calendly.com/strongeruwellness-info/discovery-call"><strong>Book a Discovery Call</strong></a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://discord.com/invite/hc9zxacM8G"><strong>Stronger Together Discord</strong></a> non-carceral discord server centering complex trauma survivors and multiply marginalized people</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://discord.com/invite/ZxDfVseD7m"><strong>TRANS Discord server</strong></a><strong> </strong>non-carceral discord server for anyone of trans experience.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://thrivelifeline.org/resources/"><strong>Thrive Lifeline's Resources</strong></a><strong> </strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://strongeruwellness.com/free-resources/"><strong>Stronger U Free Resources</strong></a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Healing My Parts at <a href="https://healingmyparts.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">healingmyparts.substack.com/subscribe</a>