Childhood Disrupted

Join in conversations inspired by Donna Jackson Nakazawa's book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal. We'll chat about the latest research on how ACEs can affect our health, happiness, and relationships; vent a little; and brainstorm our best ideas for resiliency and healing.

Rona Renner 8/3/158:41 PM

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 brings up so much for me, based on my ACEs score of 4. I have done a great deal of personal work, and yet I still feel grief when I feel the pain of my arthritis and I know that my Graves disease is related to some of my early trauma. I also feel hopeful and grateful that so much more information is now available to families, and the more we talk about this, the easier it gets. My professional work is with parents, and so I will keep reading these posts to understand more about the ways we all can help parents heal and reduce the trauma their children experience.

Donna, I will contact you for a radio interview soon. I look forward to hearing you speak about the book. I want everyone to know about it—such a great resource that it is

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Donna Jackson NakazawaMember

Rona, your words mean so much to me. I, too, have an ACE Score of 4. And even now, when I am so "far" along on the path to healing, there are many many moments when it feels overwhelming to consider that I've navigated one traumatic illness after another for forty years, since I was a child. ACEs aren't the only reason for that, but they play such a large role, for me, in my inflammatory response. The more we share, and look for healing, and follow the science which helps us to understand how we got here, and how we can come back to who we really are, the easier it gets. We can let go of any sense of shame, and start to get on our own side. Still, I think even then, for many of us with ACEs, it's still hard to activate self-care. Look forward to doing a radio show with you, Rona. Your work with parents is so important. Thanks for this post!

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