I had gotten to this really, really dark place, you know, with this husband, he kept cheating on me. Hey, children outside the marriage on me, I was attracting the brokenness that was only inside of me.

And it was almost like it was a magnet. Hey, come on, you want to do some abuse come right here.

Welcome to how my parents raised me, I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls. And the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives.

And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives. And that's the cycle of families.

I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are.

Stories are medicine for the soul, they can connect us and they can change the world. And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story.

What happened to them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive right here in this moment.

Content warning, if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast, please seek a help line in your city.

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Where did you fit into your family dynamic? What did you do to survive? Who did you need to be?

Within a manipulative, narcissistic, toxic family dynamic, you will find the Golden Child and the Skate Go Child.

Do you identify with either? On the heel blog this week you will find ten signs you are the Golden Child and eleven signs you are the Skate Goat plus six ways to heal.

The link to the blog is in the show notes.

I remember when I spoke with Latasha I got this sense of the strength of the human spirit.

Latasha had been through hell. She was betrayed by the one person she loved the most in the entire world, her father.

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