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I'm Joyce, aka the Trauma Sleuth. After leaving a 34-year marriage to someone who checked all the boxes for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, I knew I needed to get some mental health and healing. I started a support group in 2016 but closed it this year to expand my outreach. One of the ways I chose to do this is with Substack: traumasleuth.substack.cā¦
I'm Joyce, aka the Trauma Sleuth. After leaving a 34-year marriage to someone who checked all the boxes for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, I knew I needed to get some mental health and healing. I started a support group in 2016 but closed it this year to expand my outreach. One of the ways I chose to do this is with Substack: https://traumasleuth.substack.com/
Since healing from abuse can be messy, erratic, hopeless, and lonely, I listened to the hundreds of people who came to my weekly meetings and developed a novel approach to healing. Yeah, novel, as in story.
I am in the United States.
Welcome! Since you've been doing this work for a while, how are you finding the transition to Substack?
Hi Mika! Thank you for asking. I am still getting used to Substack. Since I had facilitated a support group of people that met every week, I place a high value on community. I hope to find it here on Substack. I think it's wonderful that it exactly what you are doing! Any opinion on how I can do that? Is using Chat a good idea?
Chat is great! I would start joining in on a few that people are doing, so it gives you an idea of how people use it on Substack. I think threads like this is really good. Not everyone participates so, depending on how engaged your readers are, it may help to wait until you have a decent amount of subscribers, so you wonāt be disappointed in the engagement.
Susan Jimenez did a successful one recently and she has 250+ subscribers. https://open.substack.com/pub/susanjimenez/p/here-for-the-friendship-come-and?r=iv86x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web