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

CPP is now one of the country’s leading trauma treatments for young children, and it is instrumental in helping the whole family begin to heal.

Childhood adversity significantly increases the risk for just about every sleep disorder there is, including nightmares, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleepwalking, and psychiatric sleep disorders (sleep-eating, anyone?).

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Sleep deprivation doesn’t just make you groggy and cranky; it also makes you sick. Lack of sleep is associated with increased inflammation and reduced effectiveness of the immune system.

Everyone knows it’s important to get sleep when you’re sick, but it’s just as important when you’re healthy.

Lack of sleep leaves people more susceptible to illness because the immune system doesn’t appropriately fight off the viruses and bacteria that it is constantly exposed to.