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A “courageous, compassionate, and rigorous every-person’s guide” (Christina Bethell, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) that shows the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) ​and diseases, and how to cope and heal from these emotional traumas.

Your biography becomes your biology. The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults, but it also affects our physical health, longevity, and overall well-being. Scientists now know on a bio-chemical level exactly how parents’ chronic fights, divorce, death in the family, being bullied or hazed, and growing up with a hypercritical, alcoholic, or mentally ill parent can leave permanent, physical “fingerprints” on our brains.

When children encounter sudden or chronic adversity, stress hormones cause powerful changes in the body, altering the body’s chemistry. The developing immune system and brain react to this chemical barrage by permanently resetting children’s stress response to “high,” which in turn can have a devastating impact on their mental and physical health as they grow up.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa shares stories from people who have recognized and overcome their adverse experiences, shows why some children are more immune to stress than others, and explains why women are at particular risk. “Groundbreaking” (Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance) in its research, inspiring in its clarity, Childhood Disrupted explains how you can reset your biology—and help your loved ones find ways to heal. “A truly important gift of understanding—illuminates the heartbreaking costs of childhood trauma and like good medicine offers the promising science of healing and prevention” (Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart).

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria Books; Reprint edition (July 26, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476748365
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476748368
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.38 inches
Reviewer: ChelleNae
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent read
Review: I bought this book for a book study credit. It was an eye-opening read. The lifelong effects of trauma are shocking.

Reviewer: Joseph A. Schrock
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Highly Informative and Very Important
Review: I consider Donna Nakazawa’s book very important for people who have suffered abusive childhoods. Her book focuses mostly on physical health issues (immune disorders, etc.) resulting from stress that has its roots in childhood abuse or traumas that resulted from circumstances that didn’t involve abuse. My personal interest in the book (apart from theoretical interests) is due to my having suffered from severe emotional abuse in childhood. The particular impacts of this abuse (albeit by well-meaning parents) for me were principally psychological in nature. Although experiencing high blood pressure in middle age was, almost certainly, due to intense emotional stresses that had their roots in my childhood.Nakazawa argues persuasively that people with high ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) scores are at much greater risk of certain kinds of physical illnesses – especially autoimmune disorders – than are people whose ACE scores are low. She also points out that many doctors and other medical professionals are oblivious to the fact that many of the physical health issues they encounter in their patients are, in fact, caused by severe stresses as a consequence of childhood traumas. The medical professions seem to be woefully unaware of the powerful psychosomatic (mind-body) impacts that can result from psychological stressors. Therefore, many patients with severe autoimmune disorders are routinely misdiagnosed by doctors who lack sufficient awareness that a patient’s childhood experiences can gravely impact adult health issues.As a nonprofessional, it appears to me that, in general, much of Western medical science is due for a makeover, if not a downright revolution. In Western science, there is a serious deficiency in an understanding of the powers of the human mind. By and large, the mind is regarded as NON-EXISTENT – a merely mysterious by-product of physical brain functions. Since the brain is physical, and given the philosophical supposition that the mind consists of brain processes, the powers of the mind are absurdly underrated, marginalized, and often discounted as, in analytical fact, NON-EXISTENT.Notwithstanding Western sciences’ brilliant successes in “mastering” material entities, its stubborn refusal to acknowledge the viability and powers of the mind simply means that, in certain respects, Western science and philosophy have foundered at the point where Democritus (with his “atoms and the void”) left them in ancient Greece (some 24 centuries ago). My point is not to argue that, regarding matter and the material world, science has not progressed, because it obviously has been brilliantly advanced. However, from the perspective of the mind-body problem, science and philosophy are largely stuck – regardless of how much some neuroscientists might believe that we’re on the verge of a breakthrough, whereby the “consciousness problem” is scientifically solved. The fact is that Western science will have to undergo a revolution (greater than the Copernican revolution) if it will ever make meaningful inroads into the glories of the mind.My digression into philosophy and science is intimately related to this book review. Nakazawa repeatedly decries the grave inadequacies in our medical professions regarding the crying need to grant due importance to how the mind, when it suffers dysfunctions, can DESTROY the body. To underrate that importance is a seriously damaging error of which most Westernized medical science is guilty. Donna Nakazawa’s book shines the spotlight on medical science’s neglect.Although my personal interest in this book was principally a desire to learn how better to tackle my psychological problems from childhood abuse, I found this book to be highly informative, enlightening, and worthy of high marks. After all, the book shines a light where much of Western medical science fears to tread.

Reviewer: Val S
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: For decades I asked myself why do you react in the way you do in certain situations, or why can I not trust, among a couple dozen other questions. This book has the answers, not some gobbly googly crap, but the truth.This book opened my eyes. I do not beat myself up anymore. I can breathe. I am free.I would highly recommend this book to anyone who grew up in a dysfunctional home.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mostly very helpful
Review: This is written with enough clarity for the 'average layman' to get a good understanding of childhood trauma and how it impacts later adulthood. I deducted one star because, from a Christian standpoint, I didn't like the meditation aspect. Obviously counseling may be needed, and it would have to be very specialized which may not be available to many people, especially in rural areas. But for the most part it did give good information on how to proceed once you had answers to your "feeling stuck" and how to move forward and heal.

Reviewer: Alfonso Gilbert
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Must Read For Those Who Have Suffered Childhood Trauma
Review: If as a child you have ever suffered physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, divorce, hunger, bullying, or lived with family members who were suicidal, imprisoned, mentally ill, from a dysfunctional family, or abused drugs, then this book is a must read. Your health depends on it. Donna Nakazawa unpacks one of the greatest discoveries in modern psychology and medicine today, the groundbreaking study on Adverse Childhood Experiences by medical doctor Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda. If you have experienced any of the 10 ACE's above, then your health is already at risk. I have personally experienced 8 out of 10 ACE's and thus identified with everything in this book. I have suffered from chronic headaches, chronic fatigue, heart disease, BPH, gynecomastia, and bilirubin, resulting from trauma. I was on Amitriptyline, Venlafaxine, Tizanidine, Lipitor, Hydrocodone, and NSAID's for years, and nothing helped until I began EMDR therapy for trauma as described in this book. The headaches and illnesses are largely gone.Through scientific research, Nakazawa demonstrates how our genes are changed based on our childhood trauma, known as epigenetic imprinting and methylation. The result is an inflammation of the organs through cortisol and cytokines, leading to inevitable illnesses in our adulthood. The science is virtually incontrovertible, and the research is extensive. Each chapter illustrates this process with real life stories that grip the heart yet give hope. If you've suffered childhood trauma, then you will certainly identify with the research and stories here. This is a profound and enlightening book. The last three chapters give cutting-edge information on how to begin a pathway towards recovery, from personal to professional approaches. This is one of the best books I have ever read on childhood trauma (see also The Body Keeps the Score by Van Der Kolk). It is very well written and researched. I highly recommend it.

Reviewer: Artemis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A must read for trauma sufferers that brings answers.

Reviewer: Cliente Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Libro consigliato da uno psicologo americano specializzato in ADHD; ho apprezzato moltissimo il libro per la sua accessibilità nello stile comunicativo, per i contenuti scientifici tracciabili e perchè permette di ricostruire una comprensione più ampia ed integrata delle conseguenze dei traumi e degli abusi psicologici subiti da bambini, che di fatto trovano espressione in forti e gravi sintomatizzazioni. Vale la pena la lettura.

Reviewer: Jane C
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I love this book. It contains the ACE survey, a 10 question quiz that helps to determine the level of childhood trauma. It also contains the ACE resilience test. These are both very revealing tests. The book contains a lot of research about the ACE scores and the implications on a person's health and immune system when there has been unresolved trauma in their life. A fabulous book. I highly recommend it. Well-researched, good case histories, and well documented.

Reviewer: Booklover
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Brilliant for those who struggled with a difficult childhood. This book is especially good if you are in the healing professions

Reviewer: Jenny Argante
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Bradshaw, American psychologist, first showed us how often families are dysfunctional; why perhaps we should be saving up for counselling instead of for college fees. Then, a product of a dysfunctional family myself, I was struck by this title, and its subtitle: how your biography becomes your biology. It is fascinating to read, and also deeply troubling, as you realise how much you would have benefited from this years and years ago, and also that, coming from a disrupted childhood yourself, you also understood that your own two daughters, much beloved, had also suffered from a disrupted childhood. Enlightening, somewhat frightening; yet in the end hopeful of healing. If you've ever wondered why you're like you are now, it's worth taking the test the book begins with, and then start thinking about how you can heal. A most worthwhile book.