Plain white wall as background, she is facing the source of light which is slightly more to her right. Glimpse of a high back chair and top of cup and pens.
Gold bands on right middle and ring fingers
Photo taken in her home office in Briarcliff, Oct. 2011
AJ: "So many people don't take trauma seriously. They hear 'trauma' and they think it's something that you can overcome. You can open yourself up. You can relax into it. You can be forgiving of something that happened. But they don't understand how it really affected you so they don't treat it and we don't have strong treatment for trauma and care."
NBH: "There are a lot of people who think that trauma is hurt feelings. And that if you pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you can just choose to get over it. What I think that doesn't recognize is that when we're exposed to high levels of trauma and adversity, and especially during the critical years of childhood, when our brains and bodies are developing, that that releases stress hormones like adrenalin and cortisol and that has biological impact on our body. So a child who has experienced four or more adverse childhood experiences, and that includes being victim to abuse or neglect or growing up in a household where there is parental substance dependence, incarceration, domestic violence, parental separation or divorce, or parental mental illness. A child who has experienced four or more of those adverse childhood experiences, they're twice as likely to develop asthma, they're up to 32X as likely to have learning and behavioral problems. And when they grow up, they're twice as likely to develop heart disease, stroke, caner, chronic lung disease. These are not small impacts and we're just now beginning to understand how exposure to high levels of trauma and adversity are affecting the way our brains and bodies function and increasing our risk for serious health complications."
