Project Roadmap
Where This Is Going
FindingWellBeing.org is being built in the open. This page is a plain account of what’s real right now, what’s actively underway, what’s next, and what’s still just a horizon.
Nothing here is promised — it’s a status report, not a pitch. If you’re deciding whether to share this, contribute to it, or fund a piece of it, this is where you can see exactly what you’d be joining.
Where We Are
This project didn’t start as a plan on paper — it started as one person’s lifelong search for help that wasn’t there, and it’s grown into something real, piece by piece.
- Portal 1 (Complex Trauma & the Nervous System) and Portal 3 (Practical Healing Methods) are published and live.
- Portal 2 (Ancient Mind Sciences) is actively in build. Portal 3 is actively being expanded.
- The Healing Ecosystem – Our flagship page laying out the whole vision — is live.
- About & Support – Our story, our values, how to get involved, and every way to give — is built and live.
- Our content pipeline is running articles move through a real Six-pass process, not a backlog that never moves.
Near-Term — In Motion Now
This is work that’s already resourced and underway. It doesn’t need a new ask from you — just time, and the pipeline that’s already running.
Finishing Support Us. The four ways to get involved are live; we’re still working out the last piece — how a major early gift toward our nonprofit status should be recognized — and setting up the actual donation tools.
Portal 1’s remaining depth. Eighteen Deep Dive articles are fully outlined and ready — none are in WordPress yet. This is the difference between an introduction to complex trauma and a real, deep resource on it.
Portal 2 (Ancient Mind Sciences). We’re starting Portal 2’s expansion into spirituality, religious tradition, and ethics here, because it lets our trauma-science portal and our wisdom-tradition portal speak to the same territory from two different directions.
Starting with the Dukkha series. Dukkha is the broader spectrum of human suffering in the Indian contemplative traditions. Complex trauma sits at its most distressing, deep end. We’re bringing you practices that have been real life field tested for 2,500 years and are now being validated by clinical practice, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology — without tying it to one school of Buddhism, but without losing the depth either.
Portal 3 — three things, all underway:
- Finishing our library of body-based practices — breathing, movement, grounding, and more — so there’s always something concrete a person can do right now, not just read about.
- An introduction to EMDR, a therapy that can help reduce the implicit, body-level memories that act as triggers.
- A real look at options for people who can’t afford traditional therapy — community mental health resources, bibliotherapy, online communities, and other paths forward. This isn’t a crisis-response page. It’s for people in ongoing distress whose view of what’s possible has narrowed — the goal is to widen it.
Hearing this site, not just reading it. We’re piloting audio versions of our articles, in-browser and as a podcast, with a working version expected within the week. Reading isn’t universal — this removes a real barrier for people who need to listen instead.
Sitewide crisis-resource access. A quiet, always-present link to outside crisis directories, on every page. This has been our top priority for weeks, and it isn’t finished yet. We’re not hiding that.
Mid-Term — Needs You
This is the honest ask. Not vague “help us grow” — specific, sequenced, and tied to why it actually matters.
Becoming an official nonprofit. Roughly $1,000 — the IRS filing fee, state paperwork, and the professional help to make sure it’s done right. Why it matters: right now, this project can only be funded by individuals. Nonprofit status is what makes it visible to foundations and grant-making institutions — the kind of funding that can’t reach an individual, only a recognized organization. It also makes every gift tax-deductible for the first time.
Reaching people who don’t read English. Roughly $3,000 for translation. English alone reaches only about half of the people online. Spanish, Portuguese, and French — starting with French-speaking Africa, not Europe — come first. Arabic and Hindi come next. Mandarin-speaking communities outside mainland China after that. Together, these languages close most of the remaining gap. This isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s the same principle this whole project was founded on, applied to language instead of cost.
Being findable. None of the above matters if people who need it can’t find it. First, social media — getting the word out directly to readers who need this. Then, graduate students already studying this domain — reaching out directly, since they might genuinely want to contribute or translate. Alongside that, building relationships with academic institutions and mental health organizations, the kind that build trust rather than traffic. All of it real relationships, not ads.
A series on mental health diagnoses, and what it’s actually like to live with them. There’s real depth ready for this — years of documentation and expertise — but it’s deliberately not rushed. This gets done properly, not as a quick overview.
A series on the science of flourishing. Drawing on Barbara Fredrickson’s research on positivity, Martin Seligman’s Flourish, and Dan Tomasulo’s Learned Hopefulness. This is the other half of the mission — not just reducing suffering, but understanding what it takes to actually thrive.
Long-Term — The Horizon
This is further out, and we’re naming it honestly as a horizon, not a promise.
The full shape of the platform.
- Knowledge commons, as it exists today — evolving into structured learning paths, a real library of practices anyone can use.
- Community layer where people support each other online, and — because real healing taps into our natural ability to co-regulate with other people, not just screens — help build offline, in-person community connections too.
- Eventually a professional layer connecting people to real therapists, clinicians and teachers — vetted the way trusted review platforms work, by the people who’ve actually used them, not just by self-claimed credentials — with any revenue from that layer supporting the free platform, never the reverse
Deeper therapeutic frameworks. An EMDR introduction is already underway in Portal 3 — the fuller deep dive on EMDR, plus MBSR and MBCT, are next, each requiring real clinical grounding, not a quick write-up.
The wider wisdom-tradition series. Our Dukkha series is the start. The fuller picture — other traditions, other ethical frameworks — is still ahead of us.
Where You Fit In
Everything above is easier with more people behind it. We think of the people who join this as co-builders, not helpers — nobody here is doing charity toward something separate from themselves.
Amplifiers — share it. Costs nothing but a moment. Every language we reach, every person who finds this site, usually starts with someone sharing it.
Contributors — build it. Research, writing, editing, translation. If you have a skill and some time, we’d genuinely welcome it.
Appreciators — say thanks. A small, tangible way to say something here helped you.
Donors — fund it. Whether it’s the nonprofit filing, a new language, or just keeping the lights on — your gift moves something specific forward, not an abstract cause.