Episode 186: Understanding the Effects of Trauma (w/ Cordelia Cranshaw Skeete)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest defines trauma as something that impacts your ability to cope in everyday life. Trauma can also affect multiple generations and start a cycle that is difficult to escape.
Cordelia Cranshaw Skeete has experienced this cycle of generational trauma. As a former foster youth, she experienced the deep trauma of multiple transitions, the loss of connection to biological family, and other traumatic events. But through all the struggles she experienced, she was able to find beauty too.
Cordelia is a former foster youth, foster system advocate, coach, author, speaker, former Miss District of Columbia USA 2019, founder of Acts of Random Kindness (a nonprofit that provides resources to children and families facing life challenges), and Licensed Graduate Social Worker. Her greatest passion is to bring healing to children and families who have experienced trauma.
This was such a special conversation. I hope you are as encouraged as I was by Cordelia’s willingness to share her story and her powerful perspective on generational trauma. She is a cycle-breaker!
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. This is The Forgotten podcast. Each transition is traumatic. The moment I was removed from my biological family at five years old and placed into the foster care system, I was experiencing a traumatic situation. |
| 0:26.5 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. |
| 0:32.9 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. We want to bring |
| 0:38.6 | you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, |
| 0:44.8 | vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn more |
| 0:50.6 | about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or partner with us |
| 0:56.2 | on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to theforgotteninitiative.org. We are in this |
| 1:04.4 | together. Thank you for listening and engaging with us. We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:14.9 | Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:32.9 | Well, Cordelia, yours is a story of great struggle and great beauty. As a former foster youth and now a foster care advocates, among many other things, |
| 1:38.2 | your greatest passion is to bring healing to children and families who have experienced trauma. |
| 1:40.6 | I am so glad you're here today, Cordelia. |
| 1:42.9 | Thank you. I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:46.6 | I'm glad to be a representation of those who experience trauma, who experience having to navigate the false care system from all aspects. So I'm |
| 1:54.2 | just so grateful that you have invited me to come and chat with you today. Yeah, that's awesome. |
| 2:00.5 | Well, I love and I appreciate |
| 2:02.4 | your willingness to share your story. So why don't we just get right started? As a young child, |
| 2:07.4 | only five years old, you entered foster care. And I'm wondering if you don't mind as you |
| 2:13.4 | think back about that day. Do you remember that day? Do you remember circumstances around it? |
| 2:19.1 | What could you tell us about that day? So I don't remember that day in particular. What I know |
| 2:27.2 | about that experience is that I wasn't the first of my family to enter the foster gear system. So I was experiencing the |
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