The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

problem was that we never knew which mother we were going to get. Every day after school it was a guessing game—are we coming home to happy Mom or scary Mom? Needless to say, it created an environment of repeated and unpredictable stress that marked us in different ways, both negative and positive.