Why Childhood trauma can affect your health as an adult

This is a bit of a passion of mine and I am lucky enough to work with some awesome people who help children that have been through trauma unravel the layers of their onion once they are an adult. The problem is that when the onion is not unravelled it gets passed onto the next generation and their symptoms amplify. We cannot change the past but we can change the future with what we know now
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.