Ink Bleeds Black and Brave

By Melissa Flowers

Melissa Flowers is a poet, novelist, and trauma-informed counselor whose words cut deep into the marrow of survival. As a RTCc with ACCT (#3697), a professional member of the CCPA/QCA (#11251538), and a certified life coach, Melissa blends her professional expertise with her lived experience as a survivor of trauma, domestic violence, and grief.

Her writing is unflinching-turning scars into stanzas, silence into song, and pain into pages that bleed both darkness and resilience. In Ink Bleeds Black and Brave, Melissa invites readers to step into the shadowed corners of her world, where heartbreak meets defiance, and every poem is both a wound and a weapon.

Through her practice, Inner Light Therapy, and her books, she creates safe spaces for others to find strength in vulnerability, hope in despair, and beauty in the very places we are taught to hide.

Melissa believes that even in the darkest nights, ink can become a lantern-and that every survivor carries a story worth writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWK4PTSC
• ISBN13: 9798266161764
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"