Feel. Heal. Rise. - Stories After Silence
Feel. Heal. Rise. - Stories After Silence is a mental health and storytelling podcast centered around healing, trauma recovery, and emotional growth. Hosted by Erica Blake, this podcast shares anonymous listener stories, reflections, and real conversations about heartbreak, toxic relationships, abuse, grief, and personal transformation.
Each episode creates a space for people to feel seen, understood, and less alone in what they’ve been through. From painful experiences to powerful moments of survival and healing, Stories After Silence explores the real and messy parts of being human. This podcast contains discussions of trauma, including sexual violence and abuse.
This podcast is for anyone searching for healing after trauma, support through emotional pain, or connection through shared stories. It is a reminder that your story matters, your voice deserves to be heard, and healing is possible.
This is a space for honesty, vulnerability, connection, and community, a place where people can feel safe, seen, and supported. You’re not just a listener here. You’re a person with a life, a journey, and a story worth being heard. You are now part of a movement centered around awareness, healing, and giving people a voice after silence.
Feel. Heal. Rise. 💜
Feel. Heal. Rise. - Stories After Silence
Latest Episodes
When Love Turns Violent
He asks her to go camping, acts like a gentleman, and builds trust fast. Then one night, a single phone call cracks the illusion and what follows is a chilling slide into coercive control, humiliation, and violence. We share an anonymous surviv...
Breaking The Cycle - Escaping a Murder Suicide
She says she didn’t realize she was being abused until her 20s because chaos was all she ever knew and that truth can be both terrifying and freeing. We share an anonymous listener story that moves from early childhood trauma and family neglect...
Red Flags Can Look Like Love
Red flags don’t usually arrive with a warning label. They show up as constant texting that feels “sweet,” questions that sound like concern, and subtle pressure that slowly rewrites your freedom. I’m Erica Blake, and I’m taking a clear, honest ...
He Left Me No Choice - Love Bombing To Control
Someone can flood your life with attention and call it love, and you may not realize you are being pulled into a system of control until your world has already shrunk. We read an anonymous survivor story that begins with love bombing and escala...
Taking Back Your Power - “I’m not a victim.”
Someone can survive a lifetime of shifting abuse and still decide, with full conviction, “I’m not a victim.” We read an anonymous story that starts with sudden loss, moves through the quiet damage of narcissistic parenting, and then collides wi...
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