Hello and welcome to enlightened Empaths your community for the spiritually awakened.

This week Denise and I are going to be talking about overcoming childhood adversity,

the epigenetics of what trauma does. overcoming childhood adversity,

the epigenetics of what trauma does to our DNA,

but don't worry, this is not a depressing hour

that you are playing between your ears

as you're driving to work or sitting at your desk. We are going to

focus towards the end of the show on the positive of dealing with trauma in your

life and how to overcome this with some really practical hands-on steps you can start to

implement today. So I wanted to just start by talking about how a listener

recommended a book to me called Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson.

And I devoured this book in like an afternoon.

It was really well written.

It does have a lot of science in it.

She is a science writer, but it's very, very easy to read and has some great information in there.

I also read for this show The Deep as well by Dr. Nadine Harris. So I'm going to refer between those two books and

Denise has done her own research and will mention some of her resources in a moment.

I wanted to start with a quote from Donna Jackson's book, Childhood Disrupted.

She says, your biography becomes your biology. The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our

emotional lives as adults, it also affects our physical health, longevity, and

overall well-being. Scientists now know on a biochemical level exactly how parents chronic fights, divorce, death in the family,

being bullied or hazed, and growing up with a hypercritical, alcoholic or

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