61. How Do Traumatic Events Affect Child Development? (Part One)

Dear Little Me

Dawn Chitty

Childhood Trauma, Emotional Abuse, Narcissistic Mother, Healing, Ptsd, Trauma, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Women Podcast, Relationships, Self Esteem, Self Help, Self Improvement

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🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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How does trauma impact a child?Jewels remembers the good times. As an only child living with her mom and a dad she adored, she remembers early childhood as a fun and happy time. But when Jewels was just 7 years of age the events of one night changed everything and her life was never the same again. What happens to a little girl when nobody is paying attention, nobody is loving her, nobody is listening to her, is frightening. And the journey she has been on was a fight for survival that would have crushed others. Jewels is the author of an award winning memoir called The Making Of A Woman from the inside out, a deeply honest account of a life lived reaching for the light despite the darkness.You can connect with Jewels on https://www.instagram.com/jewelsthemakingofawoman/ and please go and purchase her book at https://themakingofawoman.com/If you have a story to share for this podcast please connect with me at www.instagram.com/mybigloveproject or send an email to bigloveproject@iinet.net.au. I would LOVE! to connect with you.

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0:00.0	My father came home one evening and he was he had been drinking and he came home
0:06.2	And I think he was just at his wit's end and his best decision
0:09.0	I guess the best options his best choices were to commit a family suicide and
0:16.2	So that evening he attempted to do so. I'm grateful that it was not successful
0:22.0	Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure and
0:35.3	perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our
0:42.6	parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their
0:49.7	parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of families. I have always craved connection
0:57.5	with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you what makes you the absolutely unique
1:06.2	human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul they can connect us and they can change the
1:14.8	world and so in this podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. What happened to
1:22.4	them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive right
1:29.8	here in this moment. Content warning if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast please
1:38.2	seek a help line in your city. Hey beautiful souls welcome back to the podcast. This week I am
1:49.2	chatting with Jules. Jules is the author of an award-winning book called The Making of a Woman
1:57.7	from the Inside Out. The book is a memoir of Jules's life and when Jules was seven years old she was
2:07.7	living with her mum and dad like any other little girl and life was good but something happened at
2:14.5	the age of seven a life-changing event which sent Jules's life on a trajectory that would change
2:23.6	her life forever. What I love about this story is there's a beautiful full circle. Jules went
2:31.5	through many years of struggling big time but to see where she is at today gives so much hope to
2:41.0	so many people to see how far she's come and what she's achieved so please join me now in hearing
2:49.2	Jules's story. Jules thank you so much for being here you are the author of The Making of a Woman
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