And she showed up to the hospital the next day without telling me, without calling me, and then she started to obsessively call on my phone.

I had no concern about how I was doing or how it might impact me, but how it impacted her was more important than her daughters.

And we finally had to tell the nurses to block her.

She thought that she was the grandmother and she had the right to be there and had no concern about her daughters, you know, going through becoming another.

Welcome to How My Parents Raised Me, I'm Dawn Chitty.

When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls.

And the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives.

And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives.

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.

Stories are medicine for the soul, they can connect us and they can change the world.

And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story.

What happened to them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive right here in this moment?

Content warning, if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast, please seek a help line in your city.

Hey beautiful souls, welcome back to the podcast.

Last week we spoke with Rachelle in part one of her story where she was speaking about her relationship with her narcissistic mother and her narcissistic grandmother

and the generational trauma that has been passed down from that.

And we left Rachelle just as she was speaking about her own pregnancy, about bringing a child into the world herself.

And now we're going to find out about how that part of Rachelle's story played out in the relationship with her narcissistic mother.

So please join me now for part two of Rachelle's story.

And then I became pregnant.

And so once I became pregnant, she wanted to be she was very excited to become a grandmother and I was hoping too that her becoming a grandmother would change her in some way.

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