How Our Childhoods Affect Adulthood

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Let me tell you what childhood is supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about experiencing love, security, warmth, connectedness, bonding and happiness. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Listen to all my episodes of Dr. Laura's Deep Dive in your favorite podcast app.
0:07.0	Search for Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast and follow my Deep Dive today.
0:17.0	Dr. Laura's Deep dive.
0:20.0	Deep dive. Dr. Laura's Deep Dive. Deep dive.
0:24.1	Dr. Laura's Deep dive podcast.
0:30.9	Let me tell you what childhood is supposed to be about.
0:39.8	It's supposed to be about experiencing love, security, warmth, connectedness, bonding, happiness.
0:48.3	When kids grow up in a supportive, happy, content environment with a mommy, daddy, and a dog that spits up on the carpet, they're more likely to have an optimistic outlook on life.
0:54.1	They're able to be open with other people and enjoy life.
0:59.2	I don't know what you had in your childhood, but I hear every day what people do to mess up their
1:04.8	kids, all kinds of childhood drama and trauma, emotional, physical, sexual abuse that undermines their normal
1:13.9	development and impedes their ability to become functional, happy adults, resilient.
1:21.6	That's what happened to my listener, Jan, who never grew out of the negative opinion she held of herself after growing up in the
1:31.1	foster care system.
1:35.6	Jan, welcome to the program.
1:39.0	Hi, Dr. Laura.
1:40.2	Thank you for taking my call today.
1:42.6	Thank you.
1:44.7	What's up?
1:46.0	I have a little bit of a problem with my personality, you might say.
1:51.7	I was raised in foster homes.
1:55.3	And I keep coming back to this feeling of I must not fit in and then I'm alone.
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