#975 Generational Trauma, Mean Girls, and Raising Daughters: A Candid Conversation with Melanie Shankle
Revelation Wellness - Healthy & Whole
Alisa Keeton
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Your new best friend and super wise mom dropped by for the conversation all women need to hear. Whether you're raising young children or are an empty nester, this chat with three-time best-selling author and popular podcaster Melanie Shankle is a must-listen!
Melanie and Alisa share stories of both being daughters and raising daughters through challenging seasons. They also discuss how generational trauma often surfaces in these relationships and why it's so important to continue to do the work of healing. The encouragement from these two strong women of faith is like a booster shot for those long parenting days!
Melanie's new book, Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Water of Motherhood, Mean Girls and Generational Trauma, is available now. You can also connect with Melanie on Instagram, where you'll find info about her podcast, The Big Boo Cast.
Quoteworthy: "You're only going to raise a child as emotionally and spiritually healthy as you are."
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| 0:00.0 | All of us hold something. I think no matter where you are, even if you came from a really |
| 0:09.0 | healthy family, I still think there are generational patterns that just because they were right, |
| 0:13.8 | maybe even in your family of origin, doesn't mean that they're right for the family that you have now. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey, friend, welcome to the Revelation Wellness Podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | Today we have such a great episode in store for you. |
| 0:27.2 | Alisa is sitting down with bestselling author Melanie Shankle and she is sure to be your new |
| 0:32.4 | best friend. |
| 0:33.4 | They're talking all about Melanie's new book, Here Be Dragons, which is so good. |
| 0:38.7 | I promise you're going to want to go pick up a copy after this podcast is over. |
| 0:43.2 | This conversation is a heart to heart between two women who connected not only over |
| 0:48.0 | their challenging experiences daughters growing up, but also as mothers raising daughters |
| 0:52.6 | who have gone through some really hard challenges. |
| 0:56.0 | As Melanie says, this book is a conversation for every woman, no matter which stage of life |
| 1:02.0 | you're in. Elisa and Melanie tackle topics from generational trauma to mean girls to parenting, |
| 1:08.8 | and you are going to be so encouraged by the stories that they tell. |
| 1:13.3 | Before we hit play on this episode, I want to take a moment and just invite you if you're not |
| 1:18.2 | part of our RW Plus community to check out the link in the show notes. |
| 1:22.6 | Find so much back in that community from live workshops to teachings to our food and body addiction group. |
| 1:29.5 | It's a place where you'll belong. |
| 1:31.6 | Okay, let's get this episode going. |
| 1:36.0 | Melanie Shankill, welcome to the Revelation Wellness podcast. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm super excited to meet with you for the first time. |
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