149. The Mental & Physical Effects of Childhood Abuse
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The long term effects of child sexual abuse
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What happens after a traumatic childhood? We are left to pick up the pieces… and that can take a lifetime. Diane spent her life putting on a happy face. Creating a facade. Being the kind of person nobody would ever suspect of struggling behind closed doors. But Diane had been sexually abused between the ages of 12 and 16 years and this had caused deep struggles with her mental and physical health as well as years of numbing the pain with alcohol. The effects of abuse in childhood are all consuming for many and this quick chat episode gives an insight into what life after abuse can look like.
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| 0:00.0 | Drinking has always been differently, what do you call it? South prescribed medication |
| 0:06.4 | and that was one of the reasons I reached out for help again a couple of years ago |
| 0:12.4 | to a psychologist because not just the drinking but a lot of things were impacting my life |
| 0:18.2 | physically and mentally. Welcome to how my parents raised me I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born |
| 0:31.6 | we arrive here as pure and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment |
| 0:38.8 | is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our |
| 0:44.9 | lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of |
| 0:52.0 | families. I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you |
| 1:00.8 | you what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul |
| 1:09.7 | they can connect us and they can change the world and so in this podcast I'm listening to beautiful |
| 1:17.3 | souls sharing their story what happened to them how they got through and how they have healed |
| 1:24.3 | and thrived despite everything to arrive right here in this moment. Content warning if you are |
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