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🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Nathan Spiteri - child abuse survivor & advocate - joins Andrea to discuss how his memoir Toy Cars - One Man's Journey from Trauma to Triumph - "(...)a story of severe trauma, child sex abuse, grooming, and trauma bonding. "It's a story of addiction, sex, drugs and violence. But as much as it is about all of those things, Toy Cars is a story of hope, because, despite everything, Spiteri is still here to tell it."
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0:00.0 | Why hurt people, people. My name is Andrea, and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, |
0:13.0 | now. |
0:14.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
0:15.0 | What you holding on to |
0:18.0 | What you holding on to, |
0:20.0 | but just let it all go. |
0:22.0 | What's making you slow now? |
0:25.0 | Let it all go. |
0:27.0 | Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. |
0:34.3 | And today we are diving deep with Nathan Spiteri, |
0:38.8 | the author of the newly released memoir, |
0:42.0 | Poy Cars, One Man's Journey from Triumph to Trauma. |
0:47.5 | And Nathan is out there doing the Lord's work. |
0:52.4 | This book is raw, it's real, it's insightful, and it is shining a light |
0:58.8 | on some very heavy yet important subject matter that needs to be discussed which I will get to in a |
1:06.1 | sec but first I want to say now Nathan may not be the typical guess that we would have on here |
1:12.1 | yes he endured trauma and abuse as a child, but it was not |
1:16.7 | at the hands of his family. In fact, he grew up in a rather healthy and functional family. |
1:25.6 | I guess those do really exist guys. |
1:28.6 | Who the hell knew that? |
1:30.1 | But while not at the hands of his parents, the trauma and the abuse that he endured as a kid |
1:36.8 | resulted in the same characteristics in adulthood that growing up in a dysfunctional family often has. I had him |
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