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How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime

How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime

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.

On Lifting and Lattes and How They Quite Literally Saved My Life After Divorce

On Lifting and Lattes and How They Quite Literally Saved My Life After Divorce

Lindsay is a full-time working mama to two busy kiddos, ages 12 and 15. While a mountain girl at heart, she has found her home in the Arizona desert where she enjoys hiking, country swing dancing with her husband, learning about holistic health and wellness, and writing whenever she gets the chance. She loves encouraging other mamas who may be feeling stuck or overwhelmed, and is a firm believer in the motto “this too shall pass.” You can usually find her hanging out on Instagram, @lindsay.blaszak.