Episode 249: I Am Not My Parents' Story (w/ Darnella Miller)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
TW: This episode contains mentions of drug use, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. If these topics could be triggering for you or others, we wanted you to be aware of these topics before listening.
The trauma of our past can often define us and inform what we think and how we behave. This can create a cycle in which we are far more likely to repeat the mistakes of those who have gone before us.
As Darnella Miller was growing up, her mother was caught in a cycle of drug addiction, placing Darnella in many unsafe situations that led to multiple forms of abuse and eventually removal from her mother’s care.
Today, Darnella is the Founder and CEO of BornCovered, a program where she gets to use her personal journey through foster care, teenage parenthood, and aging out of the system to empower, support, and uplift young girls and youth facing similar challenges. A Brooklyn native, Darnella is deeply committed to her family. She is happily married, with three daughters and three bonus sons.
In this episode, you’ll hear the emotions children may experience when being placed in foster care, how Darnella has broken generational cycles, and how the system can offer valuable support.
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/darnella-miller-249/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:04.0 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | The trauma wasn't my fault, but the healing, the healing is definitely my responsibility. |
| 0:17.1 | And that's what I live on. |
| 0:18.9 | I live on. |
| 0:19.5 | I know my mom and my dad have their own problems. |
| 0:23.6 | But I as an individual have to make sure that I am okay. |
| 0:27.6 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. |
| 0:35.6 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better |
| 0:39.0 | understand the foster care community. We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your |
| 0:43.8 | journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children |
| 0:49.7 | in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, |
| 0:56.6 | read engaging articles, or partner with us on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to |
| 1:03.0 | the forgotten initiative.org. We are in this together. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:22.5 | Garnela Miller is the founder and CEO of Born Covered, a program where she gets to use her personal journey |
| 1:29.5 | through foster care, teenage parenthood, and aging out of the system to empower, support, |
| 1:35.5 | and uplift young girls in youth facing similar challenges. A Brooklyn native, Darnella, |
| 1:41.4 | is deeply committed to her family. She is happily married with three daughters and three |
| 1:46.5 | bonus sons. Darnela, I'm so happy to have you on the show today. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:53.4 | Well, awesome. We are so excited. So your story of foster care began when you were very young. You were only four |
| 2:00.4 | years old when you |
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