15. Healing From Childhood Emotional Neglect
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What is generational grief?
Kim didn't feel the love growing up. Her mother felt Kim was too sour and serious and there was a disconnect between mother and daughter. But Kim's mother was dealing with a series of miscarriages and so much loss and grief. And Kim's mother's mother was in active grief for many years when Kim's mother was a child. And that's generational trauma right there. Where we find a pattern of coping and doing the best we can with the emotional baggage passed down to us by our parents. After her parents divorce Kim was often left to fend for herself, never receiving love or praise or even acknowledgement, spending many hours alone. The one saving grace in this childhood story is Kim's wonderful paternal Grandmother. With Gram she never felt judged or less than. She felt the love unconditionally. And when Gram died seven years ago her parting words to Kim were simply to "enjoy your life". And it has been these three words that have been completely life-changing for Kim. Please join me in hearing Kim's story.
Kim recommends The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks https://amzn.to/3auodcc
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbelievablefreedomwithkim/ . Journaling unbelievablefreedom.podia.com/blank-page-bliss.
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| 0:00.0 | when my mother was in her mother's womb and I was like an egg in my mother's ovary. You know, |
| 0:05.7 | my grandmother was like in active grief because she had been through these losses and she'd lost |
| 0:11.3 | her own father when she was a child. There was just a lot of loss in grief and so I do see it now |
| 0:18.4 | as sort of this pattern of people coping and doing the best they can to raise the children that |
| 0:26.8 | they end up with and are responsible for and my mother's mother sort of anxious and depressed |
| 0:32.1 | and my mother sort of anxious and depressed and me as a young woman and as a young mother myself |
| 0:38.2 | really trying to break that pattern and and and get a lot of help and do a lot of self-improvement |
| 0:47.2 | work and self-discovery because of not wanting that to be the story for for many generations going |
| 0:54.8 | welcome to how my parents raised me I'm Dawn Chitty when we are born we arrive here as pure |
| 1:07.2 | and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what |
| 1:14.4 | our parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what |
| 1:21.4 | their parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of families I have always craved |
| 1:28.8 | connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you what makes you the absolutely |
| 1:37.6 | unique human that you are stories are medicine for the soul they can connect us and they can change |
| 1:46.6 | the world and so in this podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story what happened |
| 1:54.2 | to them how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive |
| 2:01.4 | right here in this moment content warning if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast |
| 2:09.6 | please seek a help line in your city hey beautiful souls thank you for being here there is |
| 2:19.9 | something deeply moving about this week's episode there's no abuse narcissism drugs or alcohol |
| 2:28.6 | or any of the things that we've been talking about here on the how my parents raised me podcast |
| 2:34.4 | there's just this deep deep sadness for a child who never felt the love and we talk about |
| 2:41.6 | generational trauma and we understand that that starts a long way back in your family maybe |
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