What if you found the antidote in the venom? [Rebroadcast Ep284]
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Growing up Muslim in the Middle East, a woman juggles the chaotic expectations of a severely abusive mother with her desire for self-expression; but when she comes into a sexual awakening, a secret world opens where a deeper healing awaits.
Today’s storyteller chose to remain Anonymous.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic violence, domestic abuse of a minor, sexual fetish and kink, BDSM, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.6 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:13.9 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. |
| 0:30.9 | Hi listeners. Today we bring you the second episode of our annual three-week winter rebroadcast series. We'll return with all new episodes starting January 13th. Today's |
| 0:36.5 | rebroadcast episode, What If You Found the Antidote in the Venom? |
| 0:40.2 | Originally aired as Episode 284 on June 27th, 2023. |
| 0:48.1 | I just remember having this moment of my therapist asking me, where do you think the fear started from? |
| 0:55.0 | What's your first memory of feeling scared and overwhelmed? |
| 1:00.0 | And I just remember starting my sentence. |
| 1:03.0 | I think it was when I was, and I just remember the room closing in on me. |
| 1:09.0 | Like my peripheral vision just went completely black. |
| 1:19.2 | From Wondery, I'm Witt Misseldine. |
| 1:22.8 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:29.5 | Episode 284. |
| 1:32.9 | What if you found the antidote in the venom? |
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