18. Is Alcoholism Caused By Childhood Trauma?
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
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🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What causes child addiction?
Do you have a deep sense of who you are? Do you always show up as your authentic self? Voice your opinions regardless of whether they are popular? Walk into a room and have no cares about who is there and what other people think about you? Jonathan was a talented kid with a love of sport. rom a very young age Jonathan learnt to put on a mask. To be and say what others wanted. To show up as an actor in his own life and walk into a room and play the part. He was a sensitive kid and all the emotions and pressures were hidden to ensure he appeared strong and on top of his game. But what happens when you can’t deal with everything you’re holding inside? When you really aren’t coping with the pressure of life and the elite sporting scene? When you just want to shout out "I'm not this kid!". In Jonathan’s case you turn to alcohol. After taking his first drink at just 12 year's of age, Jonathan’s life became a never ending battle of continuing to present to the world as strong and capable, whilst drinking more and more and spiralling down into alcoholism. After many years of trying to turn his life around Jonathan is now able to share what it felt like to be that struggling little kid. He now knows that the only way to turn up in this world is as himself, his real self. And that’s a journey towards self worth and self love. Please join me in hearing Jonathan’s story.
You can find Jonathan on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/teamshirudo/ and also his Unity Clothing Brand https://www.instagram.com/watzup.organisation/
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| 0:00.0 | to have an ego even as a young kid, you know, so masking it and hiding it, I can't be sensitive, |
| 0:05.9 | I need to be hard, you know, I can't cry, I can't show any weakness anywhere, |
| 0:12.1 | kids that are like seven or eight years old, older than they will beat me to a pulp if I do, |
| 0:17.0 | you know, so I learned all of these, they're all learned behaviors like, you know, and inside I'm |
| 0:21.2 | screaming like I don't want to be in like this, like I want to put my hand up and say like I'm |
| 0:25.2 | struggling or say that I'm not actually this kid that you're seeing, but of course you can't do that |
| 0:32.3 | and there's nothing about me that would allow me to do that. |
| 0:41.7 | Welcome to how my parents raised me, I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure |
| 0:48.3 | and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what |
| 0:55.4 | our parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what |
| 1:02.4 | their parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of families. I have always craved connection |
| 1:10.4 | with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, what makes you the absolutely unique |
| 1:19.2 | human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul, they can connect us and they can change the |
| 1:27.7 | world and so in this podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. What happened to |
| 1:35.6 | them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive |
| 1:42.4 | right here in this moment. Content warning, if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast, |
| 1:50.5 | please seek a help line in your city. |
| 1:57.3 | Hey beautiful souls, two of the biggest struggles for everyone that I've spoken with on this |
| 2:03.9 | podcast is finding self-love and self-worth. For many of us and I'm definitely putting my hand |
| 2:11.2 | up here, self-love and self-worth were things that I never ever even thought about. If you loved |
| 2:18.2 | yourself when I was growing up, you were just a stuck-up brat. But real self-love, real self-worth, |
| 2:24.1 | these are the keys to a better world, it's the key to a better world and if you're sitting there |
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