Your childhood didn't just shape your memories — it shaped your nervous system, your health, your relationships, and the way you move through the world every single day.

In this episode, we sit down to explore the groundbreaking research behind Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa — a book that finally puts science behind what so many of us have always felt but couldn't name. We talk about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), how chronic stress in childhood rewires the brain and body, and what it actually means to begin healing.

This is not a book review. This is a real, honest conversation about what it means to grow up in a home where something — or everything — felt unsafe, unpredictable, or unloving, and how those experiences don't just disappear when we become adults.

In this episode we cover:
• What Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are and why they matter
• How childhood stress and trauma get stored in the body
• The connection between ACEs and chronic illness, anxiety, and depression
• What the science says about healing — and why it's actually possible