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

Critical and sensitive periods are times of maximal neuroplasticity (the brain’s ability to rewire or reorganize itself in response to a stimulus). This growing and changing of neurons and synapses can happen in response to injury, exercise, hormones, emotion, learning, and even thinking. Our brains are always changing in response to our experiences, and overall, that’s a good thing.