The Deepest Well: Healing from Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Nadine Burke Harris demands that educators, care givers and parents facing misbehavior or challenging children pivot from “what’s wrong with you?” to “what happened to you?”. Her focus is on how early childhood experiences like grief, abuse, neglect, etc. can have long term health effects and how to mitigate these responses in our bodies. Children are compelled to create meaning out of what happens to them. Though talking about these openly and honestly can be tough given that many parents are often carrying their own childhood trauma.
Burke Harris explores strategies for resetting physical stress reponses including tools like meditation and healthy eating.
“For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outline in The Deepest Well represet vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come” (inside book cover)
