A Taste of A New Birth

A taste from the first breath of life, a pattern was established - a newborn girl met with maternal indifference, a mother overwhelmed by her own psychological demons. Through haunting poetic verse, this deeply personal narrative traces the shadow that childhood trauma casts across decades, threatening to engulf the next generation in its darkness.

When the narrator becomes a mother herself, she faces her most terrifying reflection - seeing her own brown-eyed daughter suffering under the weight of inherited emotional patterns. "Depression grew worse from the story repeating resentment, the curse." It's at this breaking point that transformation becomes possible.

The turning point arrives through meditation - a practice embraced with desperate hope and surprising efficacy. What follows is a profound journey of healing that extends beyond mere self-help into radical acceptance. The narrator develops compassion not only for her child but remarkably for her own mother: "Lost in despair, caught in the web, stuck unaware." This perspective shift opens the door to genuine liberation from generational wounds.

Most powerfully, this story reminds us that breaking cycles of trauma requires both conscious awareness and decisive action. While acknowledging that perfect healing doesn't mean flawless living ("I swerve now and then"), the narrator demonstrates how acknowledging our wounds without being defined by them creates the possibility of a different future: "I know where I'm headed. Won't repeat again." For anyone wrestling with family patterns that seem inescapable, this testimony offers both hope and a roadmap toward healing. 

This episode is also available in the Voice Within: a Storybook by Storytellers Edition I.

Here is the link to an interview with Rachel Faith, conducted in 2022.

Chapters

• 0:00 Rachel's Birth and Childhood Story
• 0:55 Breaking Intergenerational Trauma
• 1:10 Subscription and Support Information

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

A new birth. A baby was born. This baby was me, a girl with brown eyes. But how will she be? Her mother? Unwell, filled with disdain, contempt, paranoia, the brink of insane. The nurse told her outright I won't survive A few minutes of breast milk. She can't possibly thrive. From my crying, which rang fierce to the nurse, my mother took flight. The bottle, the curse it drowned out, the sound, the whispers of blame when her own mother wrapped her up tightly in shame. Through the wake of my childhood, I tried to lay low mum's outbursts of temper, the regular show.

Speaker 2: 0:55

This journey and discovery awaits you. Learn how Rachel breaks intergenerational trauma through feeling, through awareness of trying to break the cycles. Subscribe today for more of this poetic verse. I promise you you will not be disappointed with Rachel Faith's abilities. And we've got some other stories coming up with Rachel Faith. So please subscribe today. For no more than two coffees a month, you can get access to all these stories, poems, short stories, letters narrated to you by the authors themselves, and your contribution goes to them. So please subscribe today at wwwvoice-withinco. Follow the homepage to the podcast section where it says subscribe to Orthon's premium content and there you can get a link straight to your subscription page. Your support is gratefully received, thank you.