22. What Is Good Child Syndrome? (Part Two)
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What happens to the perfect child?
Emma was always described by her mom as a good kid. Never in trouble or acting out. She was so good! But what does good really mean? That you are obeying all the rules? suppressing all the emotions? playing the perfect role? Appearing to the world like the perfect child? And does burying who you really are, never having permission to express an emotion, create trauma? Can that trauma affect your whole life and you never even see it? Is it there driving everything but it's so buried you can’t even acknowledge it? Emma’s parents were good humans. Emma adored her Dad and was so well cared for by her mom who ensured her every daily need was met. But as a sensitive kid, Emma felt everything deeply. When life was happening all around her, Emma learnt that sharing how she felt wasn’t acceptable to her mom who was unable to deal with the triggers of those emotions. And so Emma learnt to be silent. To bury. And a dark incident when Emma was four years old left her feeling very unsafe but she never shared it with another soul. This is the story of how Emma has been on a journey of understanding. Her journey includes a battle with cancer and a diagnosis of ADHD, revelations about the cycle of behaviours in families and a deep desire to give her own two kids a different way to be in this world. Please join me in hearing Emma’s story.
Emma recommends Untamed by Glennon Doyle https://amzn.to/3tkXjLA
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| 0:00.0 | it is the most bizarre thing now that I've brought it into the light and see it for the truth of it |
| 0:10.6 | and it's really interesting actually because there may be a correlation because my daughter is |
| 0:16.0 | for now and there may be that that subconscious level of of her being the same age as I was when |
| 0:25.9 | it happened that may have had another another layer of why I you know it's come back to me |
| 0:33.5 | in my 34th year of life but I essentially have always had one vivid vivid memory that I knew |
| 0:45.4 | unequivocally happened |
| 0:54.0 | welcome to how my parents raised me I'm Dawn Chitty when we are born we arrive here |
| 0:59.6 | as pure and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected |
| 1:07.2 | to what our parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected |
| 1:14.2 | to what their parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of families I have always |
| 1:21.4 | craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you what makes you the |
| 1:30.0 | absolutely unique human that you are stories are medicine for the soul they can connect us |
| 1:38.5 | and they can change the world and so in this podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls |
| 1:45.0 | sharing their story what happened to them how they got through and how they have healed and |
| 1:51.5 | thrived despite everything to arrive right here in this moment content warning if you are triggered |
| 2:00.4 | by the themes of this podcast please seek a help line in your city |
| 2:09.7 | hey beautiful souls I hope you enjoyed my chat with Emma last week and you're excited for part 2 |
| 2:16.7 | we are picking the conversation up as Emma is talking about the way her mum was able to love |
| 2:22.6 | her so openly when Emma was diagnosed with cancer Emma describes that as one of the times in her |
| 2:29.9 | life that she felt the most loved and most deeply connected with her mum but once Emma's cancer |
| 2:36.4 | treatment was finished her mum slipped back into old patterns and became distant once again we're |
| 2:42.4 | also talking about an adult diagnosis at BDHD and how that can impact a life and also what happens |
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