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

Sleep, mental health, healthy relationships, exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness—we saw in our patients that these six things were critical for healing. As important, the literature provided evidence of why these things were effective.

the world was missing the point that toxic stress is about basic human biology and that adversity happens everywhere, among all races and geographic areas.

I believe that we can rewrite the story of adversity and break the intergenerational cycle of toxic stress.