S6 EP28: Loulita's Story - The Price Of Parental Rejection!
Well, That F*cked Me Up! Surviving Life Changing Events.Show Notes
Send us Fan Mail Loulita Gill joins us this week for a deeply raw and amazing episode about childhood rejection. Loulita is complex trauma survivor. She was repeatedly told by her mother, as a small child, that she was unwanted. This narrative continued through Loulita’s childhood when her mother actually said the words ‘I rue the day you were born’. The rejection, and PTSD was huge. She has been able to turn her life around and survive what should not have been survivable. Her st...
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