Feel. Heal. Rise. - Stories After Silence

About 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. 💜

Publisher

Erica Blake

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

2 Jun 2026

Latest episode

25 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Aug 2026

   When Love Turns Violent

   Send us Fan Mail 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 survivor story that captures how relationship abuse can start small, feel confusing, and still become life-threatening before you realize you’re living in a pattern designed to trap you. As the abuse escalates, we talk through the tactics ma...

2. 

   11 Aug 2026

   Breaking The Cycle - Escaping a Murder Suicide

   Send us Fan Mail 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 into teen and adult experiences of sexual assault, coercion, and domestic violence, including a relationship where control, intimidation, and manipulation escalate in devastating ways. It’s a raw reminder that abuse can hide behind fam...

3. 

   28 Jul 2026

   Red Flags Can Look Like Love

   Send us Fan Mail 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 look at the relationship patterns that confuse so many of us, especially after we’ve survived emotional abuse or a toxic relationship dynamic. We walk through the most common toxic relationship signs: control that wears a mask, t...

4. 

   14 Jul 2026

   He Left Me No Choice - Love Bombing To Control

   Send us Fan Mail 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 escalates into narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, and domestic abuse patterns that are hard to spot from the outside but devastating to live through. Along the way, we name the tactics clearly: using disability and past trauma as weapons, i...

5. 

   30 Jun 2026

   Taking Back Your Power - “I’m not a victim.”

   Send us Fan Mail 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 with adult betrayal, divorce, and a terrifying dating assault involving being date-rigged. It is heavy, honest, and grounded in the belief that what happened will never define you. Along the way, I pause to define narcissism clearly beca...

6. 

   16 Jun 2026

   The Push And Pull Boyfriend From Hell

   Send us Fan Mail Some stories are hard to hear because they’re hard to imagine living. We share an anonymous submission with a trigger warning for sexual, physical, mental, and financial abuse, and we take it slowly because survival is already heavy enough. What starts as a “push and pull” relationship becomes a clear pattern of coercive control, where affection turns into punishment, questions get shut down, and a person’s reality gets rewritten until abuse feels normal. As the story ...

7. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Brain Injury Booby Trap - Coercive Control After Memory Loss

   Send us Fan Mail Total memory loss after a brain injury is already terrifying. Now imagine waking up and learning you’ve been dating someone you don’t remember and he decides to use your confusion to lock you into a life you never chose. We read an anonymous story that traces how vulnerability becomes a weapon in the hands of an abuser, from reproductive coercion and family ultimatums to isolation that slowly cuts off every lifeline. The control doesn’t start with a punch. It starts with pre...

8. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Welcome to a Safe Space For Anonymous Healing Stories

   Send us Fan Mail Welcome to my first episode. I created a space for people who want to feel understood instead of fixed, because connection and community are part of being human. We share anonymous stories and make room for honest healing, then take a breath together to remind you that you’re not alone and your past does not define you. • longing for connection and the need to feel seen • why healing matters even when it is messy and hard • creating a space for truth telling without judgme...

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

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