Generational Healing: Becoming the Mom You Needed :: Melanie Shankle [Ep 508]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Have you struggled to break free from generational trauma or sin? Do you find it challenging to help your kids navigate tough situations at school and in sports?

Today, author Melanie Shankle joins us to share insights from her new book, Here Be Dragons. Her story is one of both deep trauma and undeniable evidence of God’s provision—placing the right people in her life at just the right time. It wasn’t until college that Melanie realized her mother-daughter relationship was far from what her friends experienced. That realization set her on a long journey of untangling her past and healing from the wounds of her upbringing.

In this conversation, we cover so many important topics, including:

The meaning behind Here Be Dragons
Mean girls, motherhood, and generational trauma
How to become spiritually and emotionally healthy to break toxic cycles
What it looks like to set boundaries or cut off a parent as an adult
How to recognize when a closed door in your child’s life is actually God's protection

Join us for an honest, insightful discussion on healing, parenting, and trusting God through life’s toughest moments.

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.
0:10.4	I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you
0:14.5	and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:19.1	And in this episode, number 508, I'm welcoming back to the show,
0:23.4	Melanie Shankle. And I think sometimes the way to heal something in yourself is when you get to be
0:29.6	the thing you wish you had in somebody else's life. So I think don't miss the ways that he's always
0:36.6	using even the hard parts of your story and the ways that he's going to redeem those. Even if you don't miss the ways that he's always using even the hard parts of your story
0:38.6	and the ways that he's going to redeem those, even if you don't see it yet.
0:42.0	I think there will be a time you will look back and go, look at all the ways that God provided
0:46.7	and healed and redeemed this in the midst of the hard.
0:51.1	Melanie, with her playful memoirs and her hilarious podcast, The Big Boo Show, with her friend
0:57.9	Sophie, is often known for bringing levity to just the mundane of motherhood and marriage.
1:05.5	Today, she's sharing a little more vulnerably about her own story, a story that involves a lot of trauma
1:13.3	and some generational pain with her own mom. And even how that resurfaced when she was parenting
1:22.9	her daughter in the teen years. I think it's a really helpful conversation for all of us as moms,
1:28.3	but in particular, it seemed like after I read her book, I happened to interact with three or
1:34.8	four different women who shared their own challenges growing up. And if that's you, I hope that you
1:40.9	find comfort in Melanie's story.
1:44.4	Definitely check out her new book, Here Be Dragons.
1:47.7	Let's get right to it.
1:49.4	Here we go.
1:50.8	Oh my goodness.
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