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Emotional Badass

A Personal Story of Childhood, PTSD, and Fences

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

I share a story from my childhood, discuss how our mental health struggles develop and model a simple soul care inner-child dialogue. I briefly discuss Dissociative Identity Disorder, too. For exclusive episodes, wellness tips and videos, visit us at https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass

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0:00.0

I want to tell you about the podcast, nobody should believe me. It is a groundbreaking investigation

0:06.4

into Munchausen by proxy, and it's told through the lens of family members, survivors, experts,

0:12.4

and even a perpetrator. I'm going to have the host and executive producer of the show, Andrea

0:17.2

Dunlap, on as an interview guest early in 2023. She brings a deeply personal angle to the subject,

0:25.2

because her own family was torn apart when her sister was investigated for Munchausen's

0:31.2

by proxy more than a decade ago. As highly sensitive people were often drawn to true crime,

0:36.7

not for the dark details, but for the resiliency. And when we see resiliency in others,

0:43.0

this show is ultimately hopeful. It gives us permission to lean into our own resiliency in the

0:49.5

things that we need to practice resiliency for in this sometimes hard and tough life. I invite

0:56.0

you to binge all eight episodes of Nobody Should Believe Me Season One, wherever you listen to podcasts.

1:02.8

Hello, welcome to Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets mindful. I'm Nikki Eisenhower,

1:08.9

Life Coach and Psychotherapist, and your host. And on today's episode, I'm sharing a story from

1:14.8

my childhood that shows how PTSD develops.

1:24.8

There are themes in childhood trauma, though we all as survivors, survived different kinds of moments

1:46.8

and life experiences. This is a story that's tender to me. And the actual details of the story,

1:54.4

the experience itself will hopefully be unfamiliar to most of you. But the themes may resonate.

2:04.0

Today, I'm sharing a story that highlights childhood trauma, emotional immaturity,

2:10.1

low to no empathy, manipulation, neglect, weaponized fear, nervous system dysregulation,

2:19.0

prevention, purantification, overwhelm, terror, confusion, good intentions, and powerlessness.

2:28.6

And I'm going to touch briefly on what potentially creates the Petri dish where DID dissociative

2:35.6

identity disorder can emerge and PTSD is learned or even taught. My personal timeline for ages 6 to 10

2:47.1

has always been wonky. No matter how many times I try to nail it down and write it out,

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