158. How Trauma Leads To Addiction (PART 2)
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
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🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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How I became an alcoholic
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In Part 2 of Dr Constance Scharff's story we hear about her incredible road to recovery. Please listen to Part 1 first to understand the full story.
Dr Constance Scharff grew up in a home where the trauma from her abusive father saw her turn to alcohol at age 11. Somehow she understood that alcohol would negate her need to feel anything. By the time she was in college, Constance was drinking two litres of hard liquor a day. She believed at this point she didn’t have long to live and friends said she would not make it through her twenties. As a small child, Constance was abandoned and uncared for. She was lost in a family who did not protect her or keep her safe. She believed she drank because she was scared of her father, but when her father died, she realised she couldn’t stop. Dr Constance Scharff is the Founder of the Institute for Complementary and Indigenous Mental Health Research, an author and speaker and since becoming sober 25 years ago, she is passionate about the topics of addiction, recovery, mental health and sharing her story. You can find Dr Constance Scharff on her WEBSITE and on INSTAGRAM You can find her BOOKS HERE.
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| 0:00.0 | and she'll be like, what are you feeling? |
| 0:01.6 | Well, initially I'm like, what? |
| 0:04.2 | You want me to, I mean, I could identify like, |
| 0:07.0 | okay, I'm laughing, like I'm amused, like, right? |
| 0:10.1 | Okay, I'm self-deprecate, like, you know, |
| 0:12.7 | but should be like, you know, I'll be like, I don't know. |
| 0:16.1 | I am definitely, there's some feeling going on here, |
| 0:19.0 | or should say, where do you feel that in your body? |
| 0:21.6 | I'm like, I'm body, I'm here. |
| 0:24.5 | Like my consciousness is, you know, four feet behind my eyeball. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to How My Parents Raised Me, I'm Dawn Chitty. |
| 0:37.8 | When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls. |
| 0:42.9 | And the direction our life takes from that moment |
| 0:46.0 | is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives. |
| 0:50.6 | And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected |
| 0:54.7 | to what their parents brought to their lives. |
| 0:57.6 | And that's the cycle of families. |
| 1:00.7 | I have always craved connection with real and raw stories |
| 1:05.6 | to understand what makes you you, |
| 1:09.0 | what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. |
| 1:14.5 | Stories are medicine for the soul, they can connect us, |
| 1:18.9 | and they can change the world. |
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