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.

Today’s episode features a moving and deeply human conversation with Ryder Fox, founder of Stronger U and co-founder of Thrive Lifeline—a community-rooted, non-carceral crisis support organization prioritizing safety, consent, and agency for multiply-marginalized communities including DID/OSDD systems.

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.

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.

Together, we explore:

* Why traditional crisis response often retraumatizes plural systems

* The difference between “managing risk” and actually offering support

* What it means to hold space for complexity instead of controlling it

* How to train helpers to recognize plurality and internal experience

* Why forced care often perpetuates the very harm it claims to prevent

* What dimensionalized, relational care actually looks like

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.

💬 Whether you’re a DID/OSDD System, clinician, or supporter, —this episode is for anyone ready to reimagine what real crisis care can be.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — Welcome & intro to Ryder Fox (Thrive Lifeline + Stronger U)

01:00 — Growing up marginalized & surviving extreme trauma

06:00 — Why crisis support systems continue to harm plural people

10:00 — How traditional responders misread DID/OSDD crises causing escalation

14:00 — Forced hospitalization: retraumatizing instead of protecting

18:00 — Carceral vs non-carceral crisis care: what the terms really mean

20:00 — What actually happens when a plural system contacts Thrive Lifeline

26:00 — Dimensionalizing care vs flattening a person to the crisis

33:00 — Systems as experts of their own survival

41:00 — Forced care and the mandate of silence

43:00 — “Keep the body breathing” vs honoring the actual human

44:00 — Stronger U Wellness: pathways for plural healing + clinician education

47:00 — How to connect with Stronger U (even when your brave window is tiny)

50:00 — From survival to thriving: relational pathways for plural systems

Resources:

Thrive Lifeline Non-carceral crisis, warmline, and group support, centering multiply marginalized communities. Fully grassroots. Built by and for community.

Stronger U a liberatory wellness and education collective 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. Book a Discovery Call

Stronger Together Discord non-carceral discord server centering complex trauma survivors and multiply marginalized people

TRANS Discord server non-carceral discord server for anyone of trans experience.

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