26. Eating Disorders From Childhood Trauma
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Can trauma stop you from eating? Childhood trauma, anxiety and anorexia.
Paulina was born in Poland. Her grandmother was just 19 when World War II broke out. It was a traumatic time and her grandmother was forced into hiding to avoid the concentration camps. At one point she was made to hide in a bread oven. The deep anxiety carried from those years was eventually passed down to Paulina’s mother and finally to Paulina who has struggled with anxiety for most of her life. At 14 years of age Paulina was anorexic and at her lowest point she was 35kg and about to be hospitalised. Anorexia eventually turned into bulimia and the toxic cycle of an eating disorder was extremely difficult to break. Generational trauma is palpable and runs deep in this story. Please join me in hearing Paulina’s story.
( chronic disease chronic illness fatigue chronic syndrome chronic fatigue syndrome eating disorders )
Paulina recommends Complex PTSD: From surviving to thriving https://amzn.to/3dYz6Wq The Body Keeps The Score https://amzn.to/3e3v3IF Reasons To Stay Alive https://amzn.to/3xGtN67
You can find Paulina at Instagram www.instagram.com/paulinatenner Twitter twitter.com/paulinatenner Clubhouse @Paulinatenner Her website paulinatenner.com where you can find information on her book LAID BARE: What the Business Leader Learnt from the Stripper.
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| 0:20.6 | I would be lying if I said I wake up every morning |
| 0:23.6 | ready to be a mom, a wife, a friend. |
| 0:27.9 | Sometimes my anxiety gets the worst of me and I want to do absolutely nothing. |
| 0:32.8 | On mothering anxiety, a podcast by Maria Lopez, |
| 0:36.1 | I talk about the real, the raw, and the very honest of what it's like to deal with every day |
| 0:41.2 | anxiety. I don't hold anything back. |
| 0:44.5 | I use my own life experiences to be able to have others relate to me and to relate to their |
| 0:49.7 | own experiences. My main goal is to make sure that everyone feels that they're not alone, |
| 0:55.9 | because I've been there. I've had those thoughts. I've had those worries. I've had those anxieties. |
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| 1:12.3 | Looking back at it, I think it's sort of rebellion. I felt like I wasn't getting enough |
| 1:18.8 | love and attention with their top grades. I was getting at school, so I kind of |
| 1:26.3 | wanted to maybe get attention with my weight loss, or maybe I just wanted to rebel against |
| 1:36.4 | my parents and I kind of hit them where it had the most, which was my body and my health and my |
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