🌹🔥🌸 New Episode: Was That Abuse? 🌸🔥🌹
Petals in the Ashes: Ink + Fire Podcast

There are questions survivors whisper to themselves in the dark:
“Was that abuse?”
“Could it have really happened to me?”
“Why did I stay…?”

This episode is a reckoning. A return to the root.
We name the thing that was never supposed to be spoken.
We unravel the quiet violence that leaves no bruises,
but breaks you just the same.

Because abuse isn’t always fists.
Sometimes, it’s a look that chills your spine.
An apology wrapped in a love song.
The slow suffocation of your spirit, one gaslit breath at a time.

🖤 “The same hands that hold you can hurt you — and that contradiction becomes a cage.”
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We talk about that cage — and the cruel beauty of the cycle that builds it:

1. The tension you feel in your bones before the blow ever lands.
2. The rupture — the rage, the silence, the storm.
3. The soft hands after the harm: I’m sorry. I love you. I didn’t mean it.
4. The quiet. The sweetness. The illusion of peace.
   And then? It starts again.
   
   

This is how trauma binds.
This is how love gets rewritten.
This is how survivors forget the sound of their own voice.
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But not today.
Today, we speak it.
Today, we name it.
Today, we burn what’s false and gather the petals of what’s true.

This episode is for the ones still inside the fire.
For the ones who made it out, but still smell the smoke.
For anyone who’s ever asked, “Why didn’t they just leave?”
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🎧 Episode out now.