1. How Do Our Teens Become So Lonely & Disconnected?
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Adopted at birth Emily O'Neil's story is one of feeling like an outsider, lonely and disconnected for much of her childhood. Whilst there were happy times, the need to belong and to be seen and heard were strong. Emily's voice is full of wisdom now as she recounts her childhood story including, sadly, a deep desire to end her own life at the age of just 13.
Emily has a fabulous podcast called Dogs Are The Best Friends. Here is the link https://dogsarethebestfriends.com/podcast/ You can connect with Emily at https://www.instagram.com/dogsarethebestfriendscom
If you have a story to share for this podcast please connect with me at www.instagram.com/mybigloveproject or send an email to bigloveproject@iinet.net.au. I would love to connect with you.
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| 0:15.3 | To be honest with you at the age of 13 I considered suicide. I was so desperately lonely at that point at 13 years old and I know children now struggle with this as well. I know I'm not the only one, but it was very lonely and I just thought I just couldn't go on. |
| 0:17.3 | Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitti. When we are born we arrive here as |
| 0:29.5 | pure and perfect souls and the |
| 0:35.0 | pure and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives. |
| 0:39.0 | And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives |
| 0:46.9 | and that's the cycle of families. I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you |
| 0:57.4 | you, what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul. They can |
| 1:06.8 | connect us and they can change the world and so in this podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. |
| 1:16.0 | What happened to them? How they got through and how they have healed and thrived |
| 1:22.0 | despite everything to arrive right here in this moment. |
| 1:27.0 | Content warning, if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast, please seek a help line in your city. |
| 1:36.0 | Welcome to the first episode of how my parents raised me. Thank you so much for joining me on |
| 1:45.9 | this journey of sharing stories. You know most of us can spend our entire lives not sharing our childhood story, our unique story of how our tiny little |
| 1:58.3 | self might have struggled, suffered, felt lonely, disconnected, different, and because most of us keep our stories |
| 2:06.3 | hidden, we can often feel even more alone. |
| 2:10.5 | I believe we need to normalize what has happened to us. |
| 2:14.0 | When we can see that we're not alone, that we were on a similar path |
| 2:18.0 | and how we have grown and healed, there is so much power in that. There's so much loneliness on the earth in 2020 and |
| 2:27.1 | our kids and teens can often be desperately lonely in their own homes. By understanding and being more aware of what happened to us, |
| 2:37.0 | we can start to change things for future generations. We can bring down the rates of anxiety and depression and youth |
| 2:44.6 | suicide that are so out of control right now. This is simply about truth. We |
| 2:51.0 | need to hear and honor those voices. Each week I will be hearing a story of |
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