94. How Do You Recover From Childhood Abandonment (Part Two)

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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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Can you heal from childhood neglect?

For much of Mandy's childhood, she was completely alone. Abandoned by a mother who was working and trying to put food on the table, Mandy was left in some very unsafe situations. And it got worse. Mandy was a little girl lost. She had absolutely nobody on her side. And when Mandy decided it was time to finally speak up for herself the consequences were dire. Mandy has been through more trauma than most humans will ever understand. At her lowest point she was suicidal and yet her spirit was strong. Mandy spent years in talk therapy but felt she was not healing in the way she wanted to. When Mandy finally sought out Somatic Experiencing Therapy, which is healing through the body, she was able to spend a couple of years really processing the anger that resulted from her boundaries being constantly broken, of not being cared for, of not being seen or protected. Mandy says spending two years in Somatic Experiencing was equal to twenty years worth of talk therapy. *TRIGGER WARNING THIS EPISODE CONTAINS THEMES OF SUICIDE AND SEXUAL ABUSE**

You can find Mandy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mandylharvey/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mandy.harvey.3551 and her website https://mandylharvey.com/

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0:00.0	I often use this analogy of when we have trauma in the past as a child or a young teen,
0:09.4	essentially, we're living our life through these trauma-stained lenses. We've glasses on that.
0:14.3	We're seeing the world through the trauma pain, through the neglect, through the beliefs that we
0:21.2	take on. I'm not good enough. I'm not smart. I don't deserve love. I have to work really hard to
0:27.8	earn money or I'm not worthy of success or whatever those beliefs are. We operate through
0:34.7	those lenses, but when we start to heal and we turn inward and we really start to connect with
0:40.8	our body, that changes our lenses. All of a sudden, the glass starts to clear and we start to
0:47.9	really connect with our innate divine selves, that we are innately lovable and are loved. We are
0:56.0	innately protected and safe and deserving of whatever it is that we really desire and it
1:03.8	starts to shift our ability to be in relation with others.
1:14.3	Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure
1:20.9	and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what
1:28.0	our parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what
1:35.0	their parents brought to their lives and that's the cycle of families. I have always craved connection
1:43.2	with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, what makes you the absolutely unique
1:51.9	human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul, they can connect us and they can change
2:00.2	the world. And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story.
2:07.2	What happened to them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite
2:13.0	everything to arrive right here in this moment. Content warning, if you are triggered by the themes
2:21.6	of this podcast, please seek a help line in your city.
2:30.0	Hello, my beautiful friends. It's Dawn and welcome back to the podcast. Last week we heard part
2:35.9	one of Mandy's story. Mandy was born to a single mum and she was very uncared for. She was left
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