Broken People Break People
The R Spot with Iyanla
Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Iyanla says that sometimes one of the hardest things to do is to accept that people can come from toxic roots, and that it’s their job to uproot the toxicity. This week, two sisters join Iyanla for an extended episode where they share their own family traumas, ranging from emotional to physical abuse. Now, as adults, both sisters want to figure out how to have a relationship with their toxic parents, who they consider narcissists and broken people. Iyanla guides the conversation to steering away from judgement to a place of growth and forgiveness.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Yamla your host for this journey. I was a hopeless love a |
| 0:08.7 | hollic but just could not get my love to work. Then after a series of heartbreaks and deep heartache, I finally got clear about |
| 0:19.3 | what love is and what it is not. |
| 0:22.4 | I want to share some of what I've learned about lover-holism. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to the R-Spot, a production of Shandaland Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio. Family trauma. It is absolutely real. Now it doesn't have to be your truth, but it will be a fact of your life and it will |
| 0:59.5 | construct your story. And the challenging part about family trauma, chaotic, disruptive, |
| 1:09.2 | abusive neglectful family trauma, is that it becomes etched into the fibers of your |
| 1:16.2 | being in such a way that is difficult to tell the distinction between you and the story. |
| 1:25.0 | And it lands on those who have the capacity and the desire to do it differently. |
| 1:34.0 | And that's hard. |
| 1:36.0 | If you have broken bricks in your foundation, |
| 1:41.0 | if you have toxic weeds, toxic roots, in your foundation, |
| 1:43.0 | toxic weeds, toxic roots in your foundation, |
| 1:47.0 | you can pull them up. |
| 1:48.0 | But it takes work. |
| 1:51.0 | And the work starts with knowing how to tell your story. |
| 1:59.0 | Because if you don't learn how to tell your story, |
| 2:01.0 | you become what I call SOS.O. S. S. |
| 2:03.0 | Stuck on Story which leads to Stuck on Stupid, which leads to |
| 2:06.7 | stuck on Sorrow. |
| 2:10.8 | You have the opportunity not only to edit or rewrite the story but to can it so that it never |
| 2:18.8 | has to be played out in your world again. I've got an incredible story for you today. Two sisters who are |
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