About Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Education™
A Trauma-Informed Educational Community for Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Survivors…
"Rebecca C. Mandeville's pioneering research on the systemic phenomenon she named Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) marks the establishment of a new - and critically important - area of study within the field of Family Systems. At last, survivors of this devastating phenomenon have names and terms to describe what happened to them in their family and a means of moving forward in their healing and recovery process."
- Joshua Mitchell, PhD, LMHC
“Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Education with Rebecca C Mandeville, LMFT, CCTP, is a source of support, articles and education for those struggling with controlling or abusive family relationships. Paid subscribers can also engage directly with Rebecca and each other via community features like private group chats and discussion threads.”
Dr. Simon Rogoff, author of Narcissism, Trauma, and Celebrity (Subscriber)
Welcome to my Substack site for adult survivors of Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA).
Recovering from family scapegoating abuse (FSA) is both a brave and challenging journey, often marked by isolation. However, you don’t have to navigate it on your own. Embracing community involvement and reaching out to connect with fellow survivors can be transformative for your healing. By engaging with a supportive community that understands the devastating effects of FSA, subscribers may gain more than just a sense of belonging - they also open doors to shared experiences, mutual understanding, and collective empowerment.
Via the Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Education Substack, I hope to facilitate our co-creating an online environment that reduces nervous system activation and promotes recovery and healing as you engage with other survivors of FSA.
While it can feel temporarily satisfying to keep the focus on those who have caused us harm, online offerings aimed at abuse survivors that continuously activates their nervous system via highly charged content can move us beyond our Window of Tolerance when we have a history of relational trauma.
Prior to moving my platform over to Substack, I asked my social media followers and blog subscribers what they most wanted out of a free and paid subscriber Psycho-educational Community for FSA adult survivors. Out of all of the survey responses, three requests / suggestions stood out.
FSA adult survivors want to know that they are hearing from a trusted, accredited clinical expert who has in-depth knowledge of dysfunctional and narcissistic family systems in addition to having personal experience of family scapegoating abuse and its effects. Both free and paid subscribers enjoy this benefit when they subscribe to the FSA Education Substack.
FSA adult survivors want a private place to communicate with me and other survivors where their comments (which are often personal and address sensitive family information) won’t be picked up by search engines like Google. Paid subscribers on the FSA Education Substack have access to our Community ‘Chat threads’ feature, allowing them to engage with each other in pay-wall protected areas.
FSA adult survivors would like access to my FSA-focused content, as well as resources, groups, and tools designed to help support them in their recovery and healing process, available all in one place. This is now possible on my Substack (for example, we have a Dream Exploration group for paid subscribers starting on October 18, 2024).
Many FSA adult survivors have reached out to me over the years saying they would like to actively support my efforts to have Family Scapegoating Abuse recognized globally so as to bring much-needed attention to this under-researched, poorly understood form of systemic psycho-emotional abuse. When you choose to become a paid subscriber (which includes an option to be an FSA Research Patron) you can monetarily support my continued research on FSA and actively support my mission to have FSA recognized in clinical and academic settings worldwide.
Scroll down to learn more about Free and Paid Subscriber benefits. Don’t forget to confirm your subscription and then look for an important ‘Welcome’ email after subscribing!
About Me: I’m the clinician and researcher who coined the term Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) and a leading world expert on this dysfunctional / narcissistic family system phenomenon. I’m also a Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional (trained by Dr. Janina Fisher) and the author of the first book ever written on FSA, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role (now an ‘evergreen’ best seller on Amazon). I began my research on FSA while serving as Core Faculty at the world-renowned Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University).
IMPORTANT: On my Substack, I serve subscribers as a Content Creator; Family Systems and Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) expert; author; and researcher and am unable to act as your therapist, consultant, or coach (i.e., offer advice, address specific situations, etc) due to licensing mandates. You can, however, use our ‘Ask the Community’ feature to get feedback on your situation or issue from myself and other FSA adult survivors in a private, pay-walled area.
Benefits of Subscribing
As a free subscriber, you’ll receive my public articles on FSA-related topics delivered to your inbox, along with access to my public archives. I’ll also occasionally send you a preview of paid subscriber content.
As a paid subscriber, you’ll have access to exclusive content (such as topic-focused groups held in private, paywall-protected Chat spaces - for example, I just launched a Dream Exploration group and will be launching a writing group soon for subscribers working on their memoirs, etc). As a paid subscriber you’ll also have access to our Ask the Community Chat feature where members can share their experiences with others and offer insight, support, and suggestions in a private online setting, as well as our Q & A With Rebecca Chat feature; you’ll also receive weekly FSA Recovery Affirmations I don’t share anywhere else. I also provide access to worksheets, surveys, and other FSA Recovery material. Your monthly or annual pledge also supports my efforts to continue publicizing FSA and its effects internationally, as well as my ongoing FSA research efforts.
Scroll down to learn more about free and paid subscriber benefits after reading the important information below.
Subscription Process - READ CAREFULLY
Signing Up to My Substack and ‘Recommendations’: While signing up, you’ll be invited to follow my ‘scene’ by subscribing to other Substack’s that I recommend due to their quality content (free or paid). If you prefer not to subscribe to these Substack’s you can simply ‘deselect’ one or more of these Substack’s or click on ‘deselect all’ by unchecking the appropriate boxes to decline specific recommendations - You can also just click ‘skip’ at the bottom of the screen to bypass all of my recommendations.
Confirm Your Subscription (Double Opt-In): Once you subscribe, you’ll need to confirm your subscription via the email you’ll receive from my Substack. After confirming your subscription, you’ll receive a Welcome email that you’ll want to read in its entirety to ensure you have the best experience of my Substack site.
If you don’t see these emails, check your Promotions, Spam, or All Mail folders as they may have ended up there. You’ll want to then move those emails into your inbox so our emails don’t end up in those folders again.
PLEASE NOTE: Your monthly or annual subscription renews automatically every billing period unless you cancel it. You may cancel your subscription anytime by going to your Substack Account Settings.
UPGRADING FROM FREE TO PAID: If you sign up for free to my Substack but want to upgrade to a paid subscription later, you’ll want to visit my home page using a BROWSER and not the Substack Mobile App.
Deepen Your Understanding of FSA and Experience a Supportive Community By Subscribing Today!
To subscribe to the FSA Education Substack for free, choose the tier over to the far right after entering the email address you want my content to go to. Monthly paid subscriptions are $9.99 per month. Save 17% per year by choosing the ‘annual’ (versus monthly) subscription tier. Subscriptions automatically renew and you can cancel at anytime via your Substack account. To prevent fraud, we are NOT able to accept certain pre-paid credit cards for our monthly or annual paid subscriptions.
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Family Scapegoating Abuse™ is a term that specifically describes a specific systemic phenomenon identified by the research of Rebecca C. Mandeville, LMFT, CCTP. Please visit https://scapegoatrecovery.com to learn more and/or to submit a permissions request.
