19. How Growing Up With Alcoholic Parents Affects Children

Dear Little Me

Dawn Chitty

Childhood Trauma, Emotional Abuse, Narcissistic Mother, Healing, Ptsd, Trauma, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Women Podcast, Relationships, Self Esteem, Self Help, Self Improvement

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Adult Children Of Alcoholics.

Leslie knows all too well how alcoholism can run through families. Growing up with parents and an older brother who also drank, Leslie was alone and lonely much of the time. Leslie's mom worked hard in the house during the day but once 6pm rolled around she declared she was 'off duty', began drinking and Leslie would often spend the evenings alone. When Leslie was ten years old a horrible accident left her feeling shattered. A child of alcoholic parents can feel abandonment, rejection and neglect and these are all a part of Leslie's story. Leslie is so fabulous and vibrant and positive and her mission is to help women to live their best possible lives. She wants to help you understand that you have the power to change your life. To break those cycles. And that there are people out there who have your back.

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0:00.0	my mom had this thing that when when six o'clock rolled around that she was no longer on duty and
0:07.5	that was her time and so I was told that a number of times as a child and I did not have a close
0:16.0	connection with her because when six o'clock started she started drinking and she would become
0:21.0	drunk fairly quickly and so I spent a lot of nights watching television alone actually.
0:30.0	Welcome to how my parents raised me I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born we arrive here as pure and
0:40.8	perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our
0:47.9	parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what
0:54.7	their parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of families. I have always craved
1:02.0	connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you what makes you the absolutely
1:10.8	unique human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul they can connect us and they can change
1:19.9	the world and so in this podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story what happened
1:27.5	to them how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive
1:34.7	right here in this moment. Content warning if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast please
1:43.5	seek a help line in your city. Hey beautiful souls real connection it's the one thing that I think
1:54.7	can make us or break us as humans we can be super successful have all the money in the world
2:00.9	and amazing career but if we don't have real human connection in our lives then we can be deeply
2:08.0	lonely deeply alone and not coping that's saying about being in a room full of people and feeling
2:14.9	desperately lonely it says it all we can be surrounded by many people in our lives but if we're not
2:21.5	really seen if we're not really heard then we're nowhere we're just going through the motions of
2:28.6	life and when you're a little kid and the people around you for whatever reason don't connect with
2:34.7	you that lack of connection will change everything the way you think the way you see yourself and the
2:41.5	way you interact with the world and chatting with Leslie on the podcast this week Leslie's parents
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