190. How To Heal From Emotional Abuse
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Emotional abuse—and its far-reaching effects. Anna believed she’d had a good childhood, there were annual family holidays and no obvious disadvantages. However, the journey to healing began when Anna became a mother and faced a startling realization about her own past. Anna's daughter's behavior proved to be extremely challenging, and Anna found herself plagued by intense thoughts of harming her child. Fearing for her family's well-being, Anna and her loved ones sought help and were admitted to a groundbreaking facility in Europe known as a social pediatric center. Here, they were meticulously studied and observed by experts in the field over many weeks. The results of this evaluation left Anna in a state of shock. The professionals told her that there was nothing wrong with her child, but they suspected that Anna herself was struggling with depression and had likely experienced childhood emotional neglect. Childhood emotional neglect is a subtle and insidious form of abuse that can be incredibly difficult to identify, even for the person who has endured it. What makes matters more complex is the silence surrounding mental health within families, where talking about these issues is often stigmatized, leading to the normalization of living with mental health challenges. This pivotal moment marked the beginning of Anna's journey of self-discovery and healing. Her story serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of acknowledging emotional abuse and its lasting impact on individuals and families.
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| 0:00.0 | And then they said, what was your relationship to your mother? I said, you know, it's funny you ask because I didn't really have one. I didn't really have one. I never went to her for my problems. I never shared with her anything personal. It was almost as if I never had a mother, you know, like there was this person who raised me, but I never had this mother-daughter bond. And that is why my relationship to my daughter is now so difficult |
| 0:25.8 | because I don't really have a I don't really have a prototype relationship like I don't |
| 0:31.0 | really know how that goes. Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitti. When When we are born we arrive here as pure and perfect |
| 0:46.0 | souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to |
| 0:52.1 | what our parents bring to our lives. |
| 0:55.0 | And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives. |
| 1:02.0 | And that's the cycle of families. I have always craved |
| 1:06.6 | connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. |
| 1:18.0 | Stories are medicine for the soul. They can connect us and they can change the world. And so in |
| 1:25.8 | this podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. What |
| 1:31.8 | happened to them? How they got through, and how they have healed and |
| 1:36.0 | thrive despite everything to arrive right here in this your city. Hello my beautiful friends, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 1:58.3 | The topic for this week's podcast is Childhood Emotional Neglect and I'm featuring this same time. is emotional neglect is available right now. The link to this blog post is in the show |
| 2:17.4 | notes. I counted this week 77 countries tuned into this podcast last week. People from 77 countries who all |
| 2:30.1 | relate to these stories of childhood trauma. You know there is so much that separates us |
| 2:36.1 | but our experiences right around the world unite us. There's so much going on in the world that threatens to divide us, but really, we are all the same. |
| 2:49.0 | The hatred and fear we see playing out in the world right now is generational fear and hate. |
| 2:57.0 | Not one single human baby is born hating anyone, not one, regardless of who you are or where you come from. |
| 3:08.0 | We are taught to hate. We are taught to fear. We are taught that we are worthless and we don't fit in. We are taught everything that we believe and it is up to us to use our power to decide what we will actually |
| 3:27.6 | believe to stop and look at what is true and what is a belief that I've been given that is not who I am |
| 3:36.7 | Breaking out of those beliefs of feeling worthless or whatever you were told about yourself is really about coming back to the truth and |
| 3:46.8 | that is what healing is. |
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