Season 1 · Episode 11
My Story (Part I): Traumatic Childhoods, Being Highly Sensitive, Economic Instability, Immigrant Parents & More
Empowered by Darkness · Andrea Medina
September 10, 202349m 26s
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Show Notes
Join me in discussing how I got where I currently am. You can expect to hear about:
- How I came to forget the majority of my childhood alongside my father and why this happens to many children who undergo trauma
- Growing up sensitive and empathetic in a home environment that was unpredictable
- Understanding the motivations behind my parents’ actions by observing their own dysfunctional upbringings in Mexico
- Living in Compton with parents who worked factory jobs, we struggled financially
- Emotional and verbal abuse in the home; domestic violence; constant threats and gaslighting of our calls for change; walking on eggshells; dissociation
- Achievement as a coping mechanism and the collapse of this in college, led to crippling impostor syndrome
- Inability to find a pathway after graduating from college