How one survivor’s body became the research, the revelation, and the restoration.
The Living Framework
Before this was theory, it was breath.
Before it was a model, it was a body that refused to die.
The Captivity-Lensed Framework was not born in an academic lab — it was born in the cells of a survivor who kept breathing under impossible weight. Every sentence that has emerged from this work has first lived in the body of one woman who refused to collapse into silence.
This framework is not a blueprint drawn from distance.
It is a living map of freedom traced in real time — a collaboration between flesh, faith, and the Spirit of the Real Jesus who stayed through every annihilation.
To study this work is to enter sacred ground:
where the nervous system becomes Scripture,
where survival becomes theology,
and where the body itself becomes both sanctuary and testimony —
a living record of divine persistence and reclamation.
This is not theory looking for evidence.
This is evidence becoming theory.
And it is still unfolding, one breath at a time.
With Love,
Raya Faith
Research Note — The Captivity-Lensed Framework: An Emerging Paradigm in Trauma, Faith, and Neurodivergence
The Captivity-Lensed Framework represents an emerging body of research and lived theology that reframes trauma not as a sequence of discrete events, but as an enduring architecture of captivity—a relational, spiritual, and somatic system sustained through extraction, coercion, and enclosure. Developed through the lived and neurodivergent embodiment of Raya Faith, this model introduces a new language for understanding survival inside coercive systems that extend across generations and spiritual contexts.
The framework distinguishes captivity from conventional trauma by tracing its effects on the nervous system, faith structures, and creative cognition, identifying the survivor’s adaptive responses not as pathology but as sacred endurance—what this theory names Incarnational Neurodivergence. These responses, such as “the fifth trauma response: incubate,” reveal a neurospiritual capacity to preserve life, love, and truth under sustained annihilating control.
This research is at a liminal moment in the field, where the survivor herself becomes both subject and theorist. Clinicians entering this work must learn to co-regulate within an unfamiliar power dynamic—one that centers survivor agency, not professional authority. As such, the framework calls for a new ethical container for therapy: one built on shared witness, humility, and the survivor’s cognitive and somatic authorship of their own healing process.
The Captivity-Lensed Framework and its integration with Incarnational Neurodivergence mark the beginning of a new interdisciplinary field—bridging theology, psychology, and embodied epistemology—to honor what the body, spirit, and nervous system know about survival, resurrection, and the reclamation of freedom.
To review other writings in this framework, visit the Incarnational Neurodivergence page
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