32. Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control (Part One)
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What is domestic abuse?
Domestic abuse is at epidemic proportions across the globe. How does this happen to so many women? In the story I am sharing with you this week the path is clear. Nita grew up in an environment that was unsafe. She spent many years doing the very best she could to make this environment work for her as she learned to people please and abandon herself over and over. Control and expectation ruled and so when Nita escaped into her marriage she thought she would be saved from an abusive childhood. However, as Nita describes it, she ended up in a marriage that was just like 'home'. Abusive and controlling. A repeat of everything that had been so familiar to her. And this is the story of so many women. Because when your self esteem is so low and you are living your life to make everyone else happy you can absolutely learn to live with being treated in the most abusive of ways. And so it continues from childhood through into adulthood. Nita's life changed the moment her 9 year old daughter, with tears streaming down her face, said, "Momma, daddy loves you, he just shows it by being mean." A day that changed everything. Nita is now a coach using her power as a survivor and everything she has learned to help others in the mental health awareness space. We had so much to chat about that Nita's story will be broken up into two parts. Here is Part 1.
You can find Nita on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/awakening_of_a_soul/ her podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infinity-warrior/id1495739533
If you have a story to share for this podcast please connect with me at www.instagram.com/mybigloveproject or send an email to bigloveproject@iinet.net.au. I would LOVE! to connect with you.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, |
| 0:07.6 | taking in the views instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. |
| 0:13.6 | That's the bliss of getting where you need to go without worrying about driving. |
| 0:19.2 | Book your train journey via avantewescoast.co.uk and we'll take you there. |
| 0:24.4 | Avantewescoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:32.4 | What I didn't realise is how much it felt like home. I had to let that set for a minute |
| 0:38.4 | because what was home-like, right? Stop abandoning people for using chaos. |
| 0:42.7 | So it felt like what I had always known. |
| 0:46.1 | And I, you know, for lack of a better way to put it, thought I would be rescued. |
| 0:52.4 | I thought all of these things, which is disappear and go away and not do a problem anymore. |
| 0:57.5 | I didn't have any tools that to make it different. |
| 1:02.4 | And so I got married and by the way, I knew like there were certain instances that jump out at me. |
| 1:12.1 | Where I knew that I was abandoning myself and that marriage just like I knew I was abandoning myself as a teenager. |
| 1:25.4 | Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitty. |
| 1:28.8 | When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from |
| 1:35.9 | that moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives. |
| 1:41.6 | And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their |
| 1:47.6 | lives. And that's the cycle of families. I have always craved connection with real and raw stories |
| 1:56.6 | to understand what makes you you, what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. |
| 2:05.7 | Stories are medicine for the soul they can connect us and they can change the world. |
| 2:11.9 | And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. |
| 2:18.3 | What happened to them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite |
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