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

I understood that a child’s brain forms more than one million neural connections every second during the first years of life. I’d also seen firsthand during my medical residency that if that process got disrupted, by a toxin, a disease, or even physical trauma, the consequences could be serious.