299. CAFFEINE, ABANDONMENT and Risky Teen Behavior
HOW MY PARENTS RAISED ME
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Abandoned by her mother at just two weeks of age, Ashana's childhood continued to be a series of abandonments. Despite being a bright kid who loved school, this lack of love and care turned Ashana’s life into chaos. From as early as eleven months of age, Ashana’s mother would put coffee in her bottle, sparking a lifelong caffeine addiction. As a teenager, still seeking that adrenaline rush and with no-one to guide her, Ashana began engaging in risky behaviors, leading to some devastating outcomes.
In this powerful episode, Ashana shares her compelling journey from a childhood marked by abandonment, trauma, and abuse to finding her personal power and now helping others to do the same.
Key Takeaways
- The Impact of Early Abandonment on a child.
- Repeated Abandonment How repeated abandonment compounds instability and insecurity.
- Consequences of A Strict Controlling Parent: Excessive control can result in risky and dangerous behaviors.
- Transformation and Empowerment: How to overcome a childhood filled with abandonment and abuse.
Ashana is a coach who is helping women find peace after trauma. You can find her at http://www.yournorthstarrising.com and on instagram at http://www.instagram.com/northstar.rising
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| 0:49.0 | I started having coffee in my bottle when I was around 11 months old, but I never really knew that there was caffeine involved. |
| 1:00.8 | And then when I went to go live with my dad eventually he wouldn't let me have |
| 1:04.8 | coffee that was caffeine that was a stimulant and so for several years I didn't have it and that |
| 1:10.9 | actually I started seeking like risk instead of becoming risk avoid it I was risk seeking and so looking back now I see that I was still seeking that like adrenaline spike or that the cortisol spike or whatever feeling it was in me that I was |
| 1:25.8 | used to because I wasn't used to calm I wasn't used to presence I was used to heart racing |
| 1:32.0 | all the time, fight or flight. |
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