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

Twenty years of medical research has shown that childhood adversity literally gets under our skin, changing people in ways that can endure in their bodies for decades. It can tip a child’s developmental trajectory and affect physiology. It can trigger chronic inflammation and hormonal changes that can last

This is so important to the lives of our children.

adverse childhood experiences are still at greater risk for developing chronic illnesses, like cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

This!!

One of the most revealing parts of the ACE Study was not what it investigated but who it investigated.

This study investigate all populations!!

A person with an ACE score of seven or more has triple the lifetime odds of getting lung cancer and three and a half times the odds of having ischemic heart disease, the number one killer in the United States.

These results cannot and should not be ignored!!

doses of adversity affect not only the brain structure and function but also the developing immune system and hormonal systems, and even the way DNA is read and transcribed.

Pediatricians need to be screening for this across the world!