If trauma can be inherited from one generation to the next, then so can love emotional intelligence and wisdom.

My name is Andrea, and this is a child.

What's your mind. welcome back to hold it on to just let it all go what's making you slow now

let it all go

welcome back to an old child

where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family

ohoy my dear shit shows for any any new listeners, my name is Andrea.

I am a total incomplete shit show.

I am the captain of this hot mess of a ship.

And this is where we talk about what to do when you realize your childhood screwed

you up a whole hell of a lot more than you initially thought that it did.

For me personally, you know, I spent many, many years in denial, minimizing the impact that my childhood had on me.

Now, there was never a shadow of a doubt that it was less than ideal, that it was dysfunctional,

but, you know, I thought, well, I can talk about what happened to me without getting upset,

or it wasn't that bad. Others had it way

worse than I did. Or, you know, I've been sober for X amount of years and I've worked the 12 steps.

I should be good, right? It couldn't have impacted me that much. Well, it turns out that it impacted

me a whole hell of a lot, folks. It turns out it actually was trauma. Never once had I

considered that what I experienced was trauma. I thought trauma had to be big catastrophic events

going to war or being assaulted. I had no idea that what I had endured was trauma and that this unresolved trauma was the root cause

to so many of the issues that I was encountering in my life as an adult. And truly, I am so

grateful that I figured that out. And so should you, if you figured this out, because so many people

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