10-Episode Series | Companion to THE BUILDERS Album & Fort Trauma Workbook

THE BUILDERS is a raw, unflinching exploration of trauma recovery through architectural metaphor. This isn't therapy. This is building.

Created by Jimmy Thornburg, each episode breaks down Fort philosophy—a trauma-informed framework for healing through sovereignty, spiral logic, and sacred architecture. No sanitizing. No spiritual bypassing. Just truth about what it takes to build something that holds when everything tried to break you.

Episode 1: We Are The Builders - The three movements: Look In, Spiral Up, Flow Out

Episode 2: Trauma Timber - Building with reverence for what tried to break you

Episode 3: Sacred Architecture - The Four Pillars, the Lighthouse Exercise, Voice Sovereignty

Episode 4: The Fort Holds - Daily practice: morning foundation, midday check, evening maintenance

Episode 5: I Remain - The shift from surviving to remaining

Episode 6: The Signal - Finding and tending your ember

Episode 7: The Architect's Guild - From individual Fort to collective power

Episode 8: Fort Expansion - Growing capacity without abandoning foundation

Episode 9: Blueprint Reader - Teaching others without imposing

Episode 10: The Building Continues - Legacy and what outlasts us

• Trauma survivors tired of being told to "just heal"
• People with complex trauma who don't fit neat categories
• Anyone failed by traditional therapy who needs a different approach
• Builders who've been doing this work and need language for it
• Those ready to transform survival into sovereignty

The complete Fort philosophy framework including:

• SpiralLogic™ for nonlinear healing
• Voice sovereignty without pathologizing multiplicity
• Trauma timber as sacred building material
• Daily rituals that create safety without becoming prison
• How to teach others without fixing them
• Building community without erasing individuality

We talk about suicidal ideation. Religious trauma. Medical trauma. Institutional violence. Rage. Grief. All of it.

No trigger warnings beyond this: If you're actively in crisis, call 988. This work supplements professional support, doesn't replace it.

But if you're building? If you're tired of being called broken? If you need architecture instead of answers?

This is for you.

Album: THE BUILDERS (available on all streaming platforms) Workbook: The Fort That Holds - A Trauma Recovery Workbook Community: The Architect's Guild (Patreon)

I am not broken. I am building. The Fort holds. I remain.