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

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Hello, my beautiful friends, it's Dawn and welcome back to the podcast.

I saw a quote this week and it said something very simple and seemingly obvious.

It said, it shouldn't hurt to be a child and it kind of hit me hard because I know this

is truth, but I also know how much it isn't truth for so many people, for so many people

being a child was painful, physically, emotionally, mentally.

For so many kids, every single day was a struggle.

They were struggling with traumatised parents, mentally ill parents, parents who were narcissistic,

drug addicted, alcoholic, abusive, manipulative, who didn't care whether their child lived

or died, who never put them first, who saw them as an inconvenience, a burden.

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