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 wanted to throw my arms around Lila, hold her tight to my chest, and tell her it would be okay. I wanted to make those seven ACEs disappear like kissing away one of Kingston’s boo-boos. But I couldn’t. And it wasn’t my role. What I could do was make sure that Lila’s ACEs weren’t written into her biology for the rest of her life. In fact, that was my job.