42. How Does A Narcissistic Mother Behave?
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
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🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
What does a narcissistic mother do to a child?
Did you know that childhood trauma can start as early as in the womb? Imagine that a young woman of eighteen becomes a mother and because of the short traumatic life she has lived, she has no idea how to connect with her own emotions, let alone those of a tiny baby. Because she abandoned herself long ago, she is unable to be present for this child’s needs. Because her own body has been used and abused, she is unable to take out her breast to feed a crying, screaming child. And because she is highly traumatised she is unable to provide a space in her womb that is free of trauma. This is Dr Melanie Salmon’s story. Please come and listen to what she has to say. It's the story of growing up with a mother who has narcissistic personality disorder. Dr Melanie Salmon’s story meant that she has spent a lifetime recovering from the trauma of childhood. She spent many years in talk therapy and when she realised this was never going to fully get to the root of her issues, she developed her own healing modality where she is changing lives. If you are suffering from the effects of childhood trauma you need to hear this episode.
You can find Dr Melanie Salmon on her website https://qecliving.com/origins/ and her book There Has To Be Another Way is here https://amzn.to/3hHnWd7
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| 0:00.0 | What I've learned since becoming a traumatologist and working on trauma is that our trauma can start in the womb |
| 0:07.0 | And that was certainly the case with my mother. My mother was 18 years old |
| 0:11.2 | She was married, but she was very traumatized herself. She'd lost her own mother |
| 0:16.2 | And she'd been brought up in a convent and then was farmed around to various |
| 0:21.6 | Irrelatives and sexually abused as well by one of her relatives |
| 0:25.4 | So she was a very inexperienced, traumatized young mother and very stressed throughout her pregnancy |
| 0:32.0 | She couldn't connect with me found breastfeeding disgusting to have to take her breasts out to feed me |
| 0:37.8 | So she couldn't do that she couldn't stand touch so she would push me off her lap |
| 0:42.5 | So my mother's relationship with me was very problematic now looking back on it |
| 0:47.2 | I know that she suffered narcissistic personality disorder besides being traumatized |
| 0:52.2 | She was unable to connect with me and she was unable to meet my needs. She couldn't understand them. Everything was about her |
| 1:05.5 | Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect |
| 1:13.4 | Souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is |
| 1:17.0 | Deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives |
| 1:23.6 | Is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of families |
| 1:31.0 | I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you |
| 1:40.0 | What makes you the absolutely unique human that you are? |
| 1:45.8 | Stories are medicine for the soul. They can connect us and |
| 1:50.3 | They can change the world and so in this podcast. I'm listening to beautiful souls |
| 1:56.6 | sharing their story |
| 1:58.2 | What happened to them how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive right here |
| 2:07.6 | in this moment |
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