In this episode of the TAKE IT BACK series, we explore what happens after a woman survives harm.

Medusa is not killed immediately.
She is transformed.

Her humanity is stripped away and replaced with fear — not as mercy, but as containment.

This episode examines:

• How systems avoid accountability by transforming survivors instead of protecting them

• Why visibility after trauma is treated as a threat

• How labeling replaces listening

• Why women who stop accommodating are reframed as dangerous

Medusa’s gaze was never about destruction.
It was about interruption.

This episode is not ancient history.
It’s a pattern still operating today.

Theme music includes “Warrior” by Alita Langford.
Used with permission.

⚠️ Content Note: This episode discusses trauma, victim-blaming, institutional betrayal, and emotional harm. Please listen with care and pause as needed.

This episode opens the TAKE IT BACK series — a trauma-informed exploration of how women’s power has been rewritten, neutralized, and controlled across history… and how those same patterns still operate today.

The series began after I saw a viral reel selling “Cleopatra’s sexual positions” as a way to keep a man from leaving — dressed up as history, pseudo-science, and empowerment.

That moment revealed something deeper.

This episode begins with Medusa — not as a monster, but as a woman harmed inside a system that promised protection… and then punished her for surviving.

In Part 1 of 4, we explore:

• How trauma is reframed as danger

• Why survivors are blamed for visibility instead of harm

• How institutions preserve themselves by labeling women

• Why being seen after trauma is treated as a threat

This is not mythology.
This is pattern recognition.

⚠️ Content Note: This episode discusses sexual violence, trauma, institutional betrayal, and victim-blaming. Please listen with care and pause as needed.

Episode 23 –

When the hits don’t stop coming and the mask won’t stay on, it’s time for truth.
Coach Vicki Lou-Ann opens up about exhaustion, divorce after a certain age, and the raw, hilarious, holy mess of starting again. From financial free-fall to friendship fallout, she calls out the labels, the loneliness, and the lies women are fed about being “too late.”

Featuring “Warrior” by Alita Langford — a song for every woman who rose again after thinking she was done.

💛 You’re not broken. You’re becoming.
💛 You’re not behind. You’re rebirthing.
💛 You’re not a threat. You’re a survivor learning peace.

🎙️ Listen, laugh, and rise with Vicki Lou-Ann.
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