Chronic Stress and Trauma

childhood stress

I listened to an interesting TED talk last week about childhood trauma and thought I would share a few highlights of it.  It was by Dr. Burke Harris, a pediatrician who has written a book titled The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. (If you would like to listen to the talk…

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Trauma and Holiday stress

Christmas Santa

With the holidays upon us I thought I would share a little from an article I just read titled “stress and the holidays”. It was written by Dr. Joshua Sparrow, a child psychiatrist who practices at the Boston clinic and writes a weekly column for the New York Times. The article covered multiple topics but…

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