213. SECRETS and Abandonment In A 'Good' Family Home
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week I share a story that is going to resonate so deeply with anyone who felt total loneliness and abandonment growing up. Brooklyn is the sweetest soul you will ever meet. Before we met, Brooklyn sent me her most recent family photo which showed her mom and dad, her sister and brother-in-law, her own family and all the kids. Everyone is smiling and showing up as the happy family. But the truth is quite different. The reality is, Brooklyn's mom was an alcoholic. This was to be kept a secret her entire life. She could tell no one about the chaos that was unfolding every day in her family home, even to her closest friends. Brooklyn's mom was not there physically or emotionally. Her Dad was controlling, angry and triggered. He was unavailable emotionally or able to offer protection, care or love. And Brooklyn spent her life lurching from one crisis to another inside this chaotic family home. No safety, just fear. Trying endlessly to save her mom whilst trying not to trigger her Dad. And it has impacted everything about her life.
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| 0:00.0 | That's actually one of my earliest memories is sitting on the couch, you know, with with my dad and sister after a meal. |
| 0:09.0 | And I would hear this clinking coming from the other room and I don't know if years had gone by or what, |
| 0:15.0 | but eventually I figured it out. |
| 0:17.2 | There was a big crystal vase in there |
| 0:19.5 | with a top that was like rounded and kind of fit in with like a quarked bottom. |
| 0:25.0 | And my mom kept her vodka in there. |
| 0:28.0 | And I didn't know what vodka was, probably until about middle school. |
| 0:32.0 | But I remember being a child and going in and smelling it and being like, oh, God, it just |
| 0:37.2 | smelled like rubbing alcohol, you know. |
| 0:39.1 | So I just, that was kind of my first memory it wasn't a sight it was more of a sound of the |
| 0:46.7 | clinking. |
| 0:50.7 | Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitti. When we are born we arrive here as |
| 0:59.8 | pure and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply |
| 1:06.4 | connected to what our parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives. |
| 1:17.0 | And that's the cycle of families. |
| 1:20.0 | I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you |
| 1:27.7 | you, what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul. They can connect us and they can |
| 1:39.4 | change the world. And so in this podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. |
| 1:47.1 | What happened to them? |
| 1:48.1 | How they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive right here in this moment. |
| 1:57.0 | Content warning, if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast, please seek a help line in your city. |
| 2:10.0 | Hello my beautiful friends, thank you so much for joining me you know I feel like every story of |
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