Hello my beautiful friends and welcome. I wanted to let you know about an important change coming up for this

podcast. I started the How My Parents Raised Me podcast because I wanted to put clear messages out into the world that the mental illness, the physical

illness, the trauma we experience as adults comes from our childhood. It comes from our parents and how they

abandoned us, abused us, manipulated us and essentially changed the essence of who we

are and I really felt that not enough people were speaking

about these things because as a fully grown adult I just hadn't come across very

much information on this throughout my life at all.

And I was absolutely blown away by how once I began to see the effects of trauma

in myself, which I hadn't ever really named as trauma before. Once I began

to see the effects of what had happened to me personally growing up, I saw that trauma

everywhere. I could see it playing out in friends, in family.

I could see the insecurities, the not enoughness, the comparison, the self-judgment, and the chronic illness. I could see the eating

disorders and the mental health issues and I can see the loneliness and the

isolation that was all driven by those traumatic

experiences in childhood and so I reached out to the first few people all those

years ago and I asked if anyone had a story to share and

immediately several people step forward and for those few women who put their

hands up their stories did not include just minor traumas. These were beautiful

women who looked to be achieving amazing things in their lives. And yet they were holding real trauma stories beneath the smiles and the neat and tidy lives that they were portraying and they'd never shared any of it before and I was so honored that these incredible women would sit with me and

pour their hearts out and speak of unspeakable abuses and abandonment in order to

allow a listener of this podcast to feel less alone.

To hear how they made it through, how they healed and moved on, how they had thrived and were now creating a beautiful

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