152. Why Do I Feel Like I Am Not Good Enough?
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Why do I feel less than?
On The HEAL BLOG this week don't miss My Mother Had Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Christina grew up in a good family. They loved each other and she was cared for. But as the middle child, Christina never felt good enough. Her older sister was the golden child and her brother was the exceptional younger child. Her siblings seemed to excel at life and yet nobody placed any expectation on Christina who was struggling with undiagnosed ADHD. Christina's family were deep into the church and believed following all the rules made them good people. Meanwhile Christina felt like a prisoner inside her own head. Even her thoughts felt unsafe in a religious environment where there were rules around what you were allowed to think. There are so many reasons we feel less than and this story shares how Christina overcame hers. Christina is a Certified Life and Energy Coach, Specializing in Self Relationship. You can find Christina's website HERE and she is on instagram HERE
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| 0:00.0 | My older sister, who's like the golden child, and she did everything right. |
| 0:05.1 | She married her college sweetheart, had two and a half kids, and like after they got married, |
| 0:10.8 | and you know, they both graduated and like got degrees and did the thing. |
| 0:15.6 | My sister even homeschooled her kids like my mom did. |
| 0:18.1 | And my brother was the exceptional youngest child, which I've heard like the youngest kid always |
| 0:22.9 | gets all the like gifts and talents or whatever, and that was kind of true for our family. |
| 0:27.8 | My brother's really intelligent academically, got a full ride to college, |
| 0:31.8 | helped run a ministry on campus, and like became a missionary overseas. |
| 0:38.3 | And there just wasn't expectation placed on me much. |
| 0:43.2 | And like in some ways that's beneficial because like I can do what I want with my life. |
| 0:48.3 | But instead I ended up just trying really hard to prove again that I belonged, |
| 0:53.2 | and that I fit in this family. |
| 1:02.7 | Welcome to how my parents raised me, I'm Dawn Chitty. |
| 1:06.0 | When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls. |
| 1:11.2 | And the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our |
| 1:16.6 | parents bring to our lives. And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected |
| 1:23.0 | to what their parents brought to their lives. And that's the cycle of families. |
| 1:29.0 | I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, |
| 1:37.3 | what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. |
| 1:42.9 | Stories are medicine for the soul, they can connect us, and they can change the world. |
| 1:49.2 | And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story, |
| 1:55.6 | what happened to them, how they got through, and how they have healed and thrived despite |
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