The Redwood

In this amazing TED Talk, Nadine Burke Harris explains how childhood trauma reduces life expectancy by 20 years among adults. As a response, Nadine started the Center for Youth Wellness to prevent, screen, and heal Adverse Childhood Experiences.

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds acros...