Dear Donna, I am reading Childhood Disrupted now, and I want to thank you for the way you have presented the ACEs material. The stories are so powerful , and although I know a great deal about ACEs, as I read the book I keep learning more. Your book...
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Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
Hi all! I'm excited to be launching this group and look forward to many conversations with fellow travelers who’ve faced childhood adversity, and who are embracing the path to healing. Two-thirds of American adults are carrying wounds...
Soul Murder
Soul Murder Create New Post 18 hours ago by judith haire Donna's book came in the post yesterday. I've been reading it avidly. Can't bear to put it down. It fills in so many gaps in my knowledge. I know now...
Rachel Yehuda - How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations
This recent On Being podcast touches on the epigenetic mechanism for trauma to propagate from generation to generation. While many of us are familiar with the environmental impacts shaping our children, I imagine it is less well understood how those...
In "Childhood Disrupted", Donna Jackson Nakazawa explains how your biography becomes your biology...and that you really can heal
If you want to know why you’ve been married three – or more -- times. Or why you just can’t stop smoking. Or why the ability to control your drinking is slipping away from you. Or why you have so many physical problems that doctors...