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Managing Your Paid Subscription
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Welcome to a space where your journey is honored, your voice is heard, and your path to healing is supported by a community of compassionate peers. Together, we can navigate the complexities of recovery and celebrate the power of community connection.
Recovering from family scapegoating abuse (FSA) is a courageous and often solitary journey, but it doesn’t have to be walked alone. Embracing active community participation and taking the leap to connect with other survivors can play a crucial role in your healing process. Engaging with a supportive community that understands FSA and its effects provides not just a sense of belonging, but also invaluable opportunities for shared experiences, mutual understanding, and collective empowerment.
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Accessing Paid Subscriber Content
Exclusive Paid Subscriber Features
Private Chat Group Threads (with search feature): Chat threads are protected by a paywall, allowing for private community discussions on sensitive material, such as our Ask the Community chats. Your replies or comments are not accessible to search engines nor are they accessible anywhere else on Substack. To reply to a chat from a browser, hover over the message and then click on the curved black arrow to the right (click on the 3 horizontal dots next this arrow to see more options). On the Substack mobile app, touch the message with your pointer or long press with your finger and several options will display, including ‘Reply’. You can search for a specific topic in our Chat space by entering your search term in the magnifying glass icon to the left of the 3 horizontal dots at the top of the ‘Chat’ page. Enter our Chat space by clicking on the ‘Join Chat’ button below.
Holiday Support Chat Thread (through January 5, 2025): A meet-up space where you can check in regarding how you’re doing during the holiday season. Scroll up to the top of the thread to read my Holiday Navigation Guide for FSA survivors.
‘Small Gains’ Weekly Live Chat: In this private Chat space, community members are invited to share choices, actions, new behaviors, or events that signify their FSA healing and recovery progress within a supportive, paywall-protected online community setting.
Ask the Community: A ‘Reddit’-like feature where community members can share their collective wisdom and help each other overcome the various hurdles and humps that are bound to rise up in their path as they journey away from abuse and dysfunction toward a a more hopeful present and a brighter future. Leave your question or describe an FSA-related situation you are needing support around for other paid subscribers to respond to; I’ll get it out to the community as soon as possible via a private, paywall-protected Chat thread visible only to paid subscriber Chat thread participants
Q & A With Rebecca: Leave me your questions about family scapegoating abuse or my book, 'Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed' - I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Clinicians and therapists, you are welcome to ask questions as well!
Private (Hidden) Dream Sharing Group: This is a new private community publication and Chat Thread feature for paid subscribers - subscribers will be able to start their own Chat threads in this group. Paid subscribers may request to join this ‘hidden’ group by clicking on ‘Subscribe’. You must use the same email you used to sign up for your paid subscription here on my FSA Education Substack. Before making your request, you are required to read our Dream Sharing Group Guidelines post. The instructions on how to request to join are at the bottom of this guidelines post.
Private (Hidden) Writers Group: This is a new private community publication and Chat Thread feature for paid subscribers. Subscribers will be able to start their own Chat threads in this group. Paid subscribers must request to join this ‘hidden’ group. Read this Writers Group introduction post before joining - the instructions on how to request to join are at the bottom of this important post. Please use the same email you used to sign up for your paid subscription here on my FSA Education Substack.
FSA Recovery Affirmations: One of my most popular features. I post one of my original FSA Recovery Affirmations every Monday morning. The affirmation’s theme will often coordinate with my public article topics that week.
Tools, resources, and worksheets, such as this Journal Prompt post that offers daily, weekly, monthly, annual, creative, and thematic prompts to support healing from FSA. To find more tools and worksheets, use the search icon on my Substack and enter ‘tools’ or ‘worksheets’, etc.
General Community Links
FSA Education Home Page: Features my latest and also my most popular posts. Public posts are available to both free and paid subscribers. If you are on a browser, you can also see additional resources and links on the lower right hand side of my home page as you scroll down.
My introductory book on FSA: Whether you are an FSA survivor or an interested researcher or clinician, you are encouraged to read Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role (an Amazon ‘evergreen’ best seller since its release four years ago).
My ‘Notes’: Notes are like ‘tweets’ here on Substack and, similar to posts, can be ‘restacked’ to share with others. Public posts are available to both free and paid subscribers.
FSA Education Archive: Includes all of my posted content to date, both free and paid. Use the ‘search’ icon to find topics of interest to you.
My YouTube Channel: As a licensed YouTube Health Partner, I provide free public education on family scapegoating abuse, as well as clinically grounded information on recovering from its devastating effects.
FSA Recovery Resources: Resources I share with clients, subscribers, and social media followers that assist in FSA and Complex Trauma recovery.
Book Recommendations from the FSA Education Community: See what books have helped other community members in their recovery and contribute your own suggestions!
All subscribers, free and paid, receive my free public articles on FSA via email and/or the Substack mobile app, depending on how you have configured your Notification settings in your Substack Account Profile. These articles are eventually partially paywalled, however, so be sure to read them within a few weeks after receiving. (Reminder: If you’re using the Substack Mobile App, make sure you’ve turned on ‘Push Notifications’ or check your Substack Inbox weekly to find my free posts.
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.
How to access my full navigation menu and offerings
To access my full navigation menu from your BROWSER, sign into Substack, then use the search bar at the top right of your screen to navigate to ‘Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Education’. My site menu will then show at the top of your screen.
To access my full navigation menu from the SUBSTACK MOBILE APP, click on the ‘Inbox’ to the right of the ‘Home’ icon at the bottom of your screen. Click into one of my posts. Click on the three vertical dots at the top right of the screen. Click on ‘View Publication’. Then click on the three vertical dots again and click ‘Manage Subscription’. You’ll then see my full navigation menu at the top of your screen.
You can download the Substack app here: https://substack.com/app
Looking for information about a specific topic? On a browser, use the ‘search’ feature via entering your chosen topic into the magnifying glass icon located at the upper right of your screen. For example, enter ‘worksheet’ to find worksheets, or ‘siblings’ to find past conversations involving sibling FSA, or ‘boundaries’ to find articles on boundaries relating to FSA. A list of articles will then come up and you can then click directly onto the ones that interest you.
On the Substack Mobile App, click on ‘Inbox’ next to ‘Home’ on the bottom of your screen. Click into one of my articles. Click into the three vertical dots at the top right of your screen. Click on ‘View Publication’. You’ll see they ‘search’ icon at the top right of your screen to the left of the three dots.
Getting Notified of New Community Content
You can choose how you’d like to be notified of new content I put out by following the instructions below.
On a Browser:
1. Head over to your Substack account Settings page and scroll to the Notifications section.
2. Click on the toggle next to each option to disable / enable.
On the Substack Mobile App:
1. Tap your Substack profile picture and select Settings.
2. Tap Notifications and on this page, toggle off what you do not want to receive push notifications for. To ensure you don’t miss my new content, you may want to be notified by both email AND push notifications. Not receiving my emails? Check your ‘Promotions’ or ‘Spam’ folders and then find / move my emails to your Inbox to alert your email provider that you want emails from me to go there.