Obesity and the Link With Childhood PTSD: An Interview with Mary Giuliani
Most people who struggle with weight and food have probably suspected that trauma in the past plays a role. In this new video, Mary Giuliani explains what we now [...]
The Unexpected Healing Power of NOT TALKING About Trauma
Many years ago, I found a dead body. It was a man I had been dating for a few months, who had turned out to have even more problems [...]
Brain Dysregulation is at the Root of Childhood PTSD: Learning to Re-Regulate Is Where Healing Begins
To heal from Childhood PTSD, it's crucial to understand the role of dysregulation, which is the underlying problem that most conventional treatments have never really repaired or understood. Why [...]
Re-Regulating Your Brain: The Key to Healing Childhood PTSD
https://youtu.be/uR4KjQ2711E The effects of childhood trauma used to be seen as mostly psychological, but now we know there's more to the story. In this video I talk about the [...]
Growing Up “Hippie Poor” vs. “Hillbilly Poor”:
Recently I finished J.D. Vance's excellent Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, a book that's part sociological analysis about poor white Americans, and part [...]
The Childhood PTSD Revolution
https://youtu.be/hzJOvHl93KI What will the world be like when millions of us, who were once suppressed by the burden of Childhood PTSD, are liberated, and bring our gifts to the [...]
Why I Smoked, and How I Stopped
Today is exactly twenty years, eight months and five days since my last cigarette. This happened after 16 years of heavy smoking, struggling to quit, getting a few days [...]
Childhood Adversity, Telomeres & Love: An Interview with Susana DeLeón, MD
https://youtu.be/LE0annhDH_E Today I share my abridged interview with psychiatrist Susana De Leon, MD. We are mutual fans on Twitter, and this is our conversation is about the way early [...]
The Traumas We Inflict On Ourselves
When we talk about trauma, we are usually referring to the things done TO us — childhood abuse and neglect, growing up poor, violence by a partner, exposure to [...]
Does Growing Up With Trauma in the House Make You Overweight?
Last year was the best year of my life. For one thing, I finally lost the extra weight I’d been carrying — about 40 pounds. I was (and am) [...]