54. How Does Childhood Trauma Impact Parenting? (Part Two)
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What are the impacts of childhood trauma on our parenting?
Kavita was six years old and her sister was four when they were sent to boarding school. It was total abandonment and Kavita was in complete trauma. Her mother was living with an undiagnosed mental illness and her parents were simply unable to cope. It wasn't until Kavita had her own child that she really understood the depths of that trauma. In this episode Kavita is sharing her story and all of her wisdom. As a Parenting Coach, trained by Dr Shefali, Oprah’s go-to parenting expert Kavita has now come full circle as she teaches parents how, by embracing ourselves, we can create a beautiful partnership with our child.
You can find Kavita on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/conscious.parent/ and her parenting articles at https://www.khaleejtimes.com/lifestyle/parenting
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| 0:00.0 | You know, so you're carrying in your heart and in your soul the pain of so many generations. |
| 0:06.0 | So when you actually feel this pain and you raise yourself and go through that dark tunnel, Dr. Nicola Pera, you know, the holistic psychologist, she speaks of it as the dark night of the soul. |
| 0:19.0 | When you go through this breakdown, which for me started at 36 with my son, when you go through this breakdown, when you go through this dark night of the soul. |
| 0:29.0 | And you release this pain and you connect with yourself, you merge with your inner child, then you become aligned. |
| 0:38.0 | It's a beautiful process. That is the way you align and then everything in your life just falls into place. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls. |
| 1:00.0 | And the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives. |
| 1:07.0 | And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives. |
| 1:14.0 | And that's the cycle of families. I have always craved connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. |
| 1:31.0 | Stories are medicine for the soul. They can connect us and they can change the world. |
| 1:38.0 | And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. |
| 1:44.0 | What happened to them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive right here in this moment? |
| 1:55.0 | Content warning, if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast, please seek a help line in your city. |
| 2:07.0 | Hey beautiful souls. Last week we heard Kavita's childhood story of growing up with a mother suffering an undiagnosed mental illness causing Kavita and her sister to be abandoned at a very young age. |
| 2:22.0 | We are picking up the conversation now as Kavita is explaining about how you need to feel your pain and take responsibility for everything that has happened in your life in order to be the best parent you can for your child. |
| 2:37.0 | Here is part two. |
| 2:40.0 | One thing I can tell everyone, it starts with you feeling your pain and taking full responsibility. |
| 2:50.0 | It is not about the other. |
| 2:53.0 | You feel the pain. Our parents had the job till they were 25, till we were 25 years old. |
| 3:01.0 | But after that they let us down. |
| 3:05.0 | Not because they are bad because the cycle of trauma runs many generations back. |
| 3:12.0 | You don't even know the beginning of it. |
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