Here is the fourth episode of Authentic Wellness. Definitely the episode that started it all! Tune in to hear the origins of why this podcast exists. Why a small assignment and small interest in the brain transformed my whole healing journey and ignited a desire in me to educate people on the complexities that trauma can have on development.

Resources:

https://www.dbsalliance.org/

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○Danese, A., & van Harmelen, A.-L. (2017). The hidden wounds of childhood trauma. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 8(sup7), 137584–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1375840

○Jones, C. W., Esteves, K. C., Gray, S. A. ., Clarke, T. N., Callerame, K., Theall, K. P., & Drury, S. S. (2019). The transgenerational transmission of maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): Insights from placental aging and infant autonomic nervous system reactivity. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 106, 20–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.03.022

○Kim, S., Kim, J. S., Jin, M. J., Im, C.-H., & Lee, S.-H. (2018). Dysfunctional frontal lobe activity during inhibitory tasks in individuals with childhood trauma: An event-related potential study. NeuroImage Clinical, 17, 935–942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2017.12.034

○Kuzminskaite, E., Vinkers, C. H., Elzinga, B. M., Wardenaar, K. J., Giltay, E. J., & Penninx, B. W. J. . (2020). Childhood trauma and dysregulation of multiple biological stress systems in adulthood: Results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 121, 104835–104835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104835

○Meyer, P.-W., Müller, L. E., Zastrow, A., Schmidinger, I., Bohus, M., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K. (2016). Heart rate variability in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder or borderline personality disorder: relationship to early life maltreatment. Journal of Neural Transmission, 123(9), 1107–1118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-016-1584-8

○O’Hare, C., McCrory, C., O’Leary, N., O’Brien, H., & Kenny, R. A. (2017). Childhood trauma and lifetime syncope burden among older adults. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 97, 63–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2017.03.019