33. Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control (Part Two)
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 45 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 two.
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
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| 0:00.0 | Every one of us has an interesting and inspiring story to tell. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Marcy Brockman, author, artist, English teacher and podcaster. |
| 0:10.0 | My memoir, Permission to Land, searching for love, home, and belonging, is my story of surviving mental illness and addiction, |
| 0:16.0 | to learn to grant myself permission to grow, heal, and build a beautiful life for myself and my children. |
| 0:22.0 | And check out the Companion Guided Journal, Permission to Land, personal transformation through writing. |
| 0:27.0 | Both are available wherever books are sold online and sign copies are available at my website, Marcy Brockman.com. |
| 0:34.0 | Taking my mission of healing, storytelling, worldwide is my hit podcast, Permission to Heal. |
| 0:40.0 | Each episode provides inspiration, connections, and whole-hearted vulnerability as we learn to give ourselves permission to heal. |
| 0:47.0 | New episodes drop every Wednesday, find permission to heal wherever you listen to podcasts and on YouTube. |
| 0:53.0 | Find me, my books, and podcasts, and so much more at Marcy Brockman.com. |
| 1:00.0 | Interestingly enough, my youngest child at the age of nine, one morning before school came and hugged me, really, really tight. |
| 1:09.0 | Tears just streaming down her little cheek, beautiful little blonde hair. |
| 1:14.0 | And I looked down at her and I said, what is wrong? |
| 1:17.0 | Are you okay? |
| 1:20.0 | And she just tears just streaming down her cheeks and she says, daddy loves you. |
| 1:24.0 | He just shows it by being mean. |
| 1:26.0 | And I thought, I thought I'd throw up. |
| 1:29.0 | I literally thought I would throw up. |
| 1:31.0 | We're teaching this beautiful, nine-year-old girl that love is me. |
| 1:43.0 | Welcome to How My Parents Raised Me. I'm Dawn Chitty. |
| 1:47.0 | When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls. |
| 1:52.0 | And the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives. |
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