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

So did their behavior—if a rat pup born to a high-licker mom was fostered by a low licker, she grew up to be an anxious adult rat with high levels of stress hormones who was a low licker herself when she had her own pups.