Trigger Warnings:

→ Emotional manipulation

→ Gaslighting

→ Discussion of psychological abuse and trauma

→ Coercion and spiritual silencing

→ Intuition suppression

→ Themes of survival and dissociation

In this episode of Salt & Sovereignty, Ashley and Lizza descend into the mythic bones of Bluebeard, the charming monster who hides in plain sight. The one who smiles while stealing keys. The one who punishes curiosity and calls it betrayal.

Together, they unearth the ways trauma teaches us to doubt our own knowing. They speak into the silence that forms when someone weaponizes love, when loyalty becomes a leash, and when intuition is the first casualty.

This isn’t a story about monsters. It’s a story about remembering the door was never locked. About realizing you were trained to flinch from your own knowing. About taking back the key, even if your hand still trembles.

This conversation is a spell for those who feel like they should have known better but did everything they could to survive. It’s a ritual of return for the wild-eyed women with keys in their hands and blood on the floor.

Trigger Warnings:

→ Sexual manipulation

→ Bullying & emotional abuse

→ Grooming

→ Discussion of SA (not graphic)

→ Trauma responses & dissociation

→ Consent confusion

In this episode, Ashley and Lizza unravel the twisted roots of care that was actually control. They speak on grooming cloaked in affection, and the psychic bruises left by those who masked manipulation as love.

This is a raw remembering, of guilt that doesn’t belong to us, of desire distorted by coercion, of boundaries we weren’t taught how to hold.

They trace the quiet courage it takes to name what was taken… and the wildfire of truth that comes when you finally do.

No masks here. Just truth told in candlelight. This is not about closure. It’s about fire.

This is for the ones who were shamed into silence — and are learning to speak again.

In this raw, reverent conversation, Ashley and Lizza peel back the layers of trauma, desire, and deep emotional patterning. They speak on gaslighting, control, parental wounds, and the ache of being needed but never held.

Together, they name the pain of being told their intuition was too much.

They unravel the codependency that shaped their relationships.

They reclaim consent, voice, and the sacred wildness that never really left.

With threads from Women Who Run With the Wolves, moments of laughter, and tender truths, this episode is a soft howl for the ones still healing.

Still here.

Still wild.