Hey guys, welcome back to the previous

Hey guys welcome back to the preview lines podcast this is Sarah and Whitney

Okay, so one thing that we have yet to talk about Whitney

That actually texted Whitney this other day and I was like this is a great topic is how past trauma plays into mom's mental health. Oh there's so many connections there are so many avenues we can take with this.

So here at preview, we always ask the question when they on board with us is if they have a history

of physical or sexual abuse or if they're currently in a

or in an interpersonal violence situation.

Yeah, or in an abusive situation.

And the thing is, it doesn't have to be your significant other.

Oh yeah. That is the abuser. It could still be a parent figure. It could be a sibling.

It could be a boss. It could be a friend. It could be your significant other right but it is not

exclusive to a significant other or a partner because sometimes people think that

right they're like I mean that is kind of the default and that's appropriate because I would say the majority of it does come from a couple scenario or even if it's your ex it's still that scenario of a significant other or a partner or your

father of the baby, even if you've broken up, they're still there.

They could be a narcissist.

So when we say abuse abuse we don't necessarily mean just physical abuse

like you're getting hit or kicked and not just sexual abuse it could be the mental abuse that comes with that.

These, you know, mind games of, well, I don't know which version of this person I'm going to

get today or I'm walking around on eggshells around them, that hyper-vigilance of what's going to happen next.

And so to tie that into a history of trauma or abuse, let's just say that your parents maybe were highly critical of you growing up,

or they have very high expectations of you, or maybe they were the same way.

They were narcissistic and abusive, or maybe maybe they were the same way they were narcissistic and abusive or maybe

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