51. The Effects Of Physical Discipline On A Child
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The effects of a controlling parent.
Control can be at the very heart of a traumatic childhood. Parents with unhealthy and unattainable standards, unreasonable rules and regulations. Parents using punishments and controlling behaviour. Micah grew up in a very controlled, religious environment. Church was three times a week. Discipline was militant in style and there were so many rules and beliefs that Micah had begun obsessively washing her hands by age 5. She also became very controlled with food, absorbing the messages she was being given about what sort of a person you were if you ate too much. Such a difficult start for a little girl. Micah Stover is now a psychedelic guide and trauma midwife, working with the power of psychedelics to help others in trauma to go back and rescue that younger self and bring her home.
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| 0:00.0 | I had nothing, including my own being, was in any way in my agency or control. |
| 0:07.8 | So I started to control food because it was a thing I could control. |
| 0:11.6 | There was also a large preoccupation in the house around, my dad had a big value around |
| 0:19.4 | discipline. |
| 0:20.4 | So one of the ways discipline was reflected was in your wellness. |
| 0:25.4 | You definitely, he had like a real hang up with people being overweight because that reflected |
| 0:31.2 | a lack of discipline. |
| 0:32.7 | So he was often chiding my mother for not being fit enough, you know, and as a little kid |
| 0:38.9 | I internalized messages like, oh, if you, if you eat too much of that, you might have |
| 0:43.4 | your mom's problem. |
| 0:44.8 | So don't do that. |
| 0:45.8 | So there were all sorts of like perfect little fodder for my developing mind to, to have |
| 0:52.2 | the raw material to create an eating disorder. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, so those are some of the ways it showed up. |
| 1:05.6 | Welcome to How My Parents Raised Me, I'm Dawn Chitty. |
| 1:09.0 | When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls and the direction our life |
| 1:15.3 | takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives. |
| 1:21.8 | And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought |
| 1:27.2 | to their lives and that's the cycle of families. |
| 1:31.8 | I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you |
| 1:39.1 | you, what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. |
| 1:46.4 | These are medicine for the soul they can connect us and they can change the world. |
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