Nadine Burke Harris: What Your Childhood Means for Your Health

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Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Can trauma you experienced as a kid still affect you now? What about the traumatic experiences of our parents and grandparents? Is there a way to undo what California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris calls the “toxic stress response”? In this conversation, Kate and Nadine discuss: Why “picking yourself up by your bootstraps” is an incomplete (and unhelpful) story A better way to define resilience How your zip code might determine your health How fostering nurturing relationships help heal our bodies What baby rats can teach us about learning to change Kate ends with a Blessing for if You had a Painful Childhood. And whew, will this episode crack you open and heal the tender parts of you you didn’t know needed it. *** Find me on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to my weekly email for bits of wisdom, prayers, free downloads, and more. Oh! And I have a brand-new book coming out on September 28th called No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear). Pre-order your copy today and receive a FREE 18" navy blue pennant. Learn how by clicking here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:59.9	Hey, lovelies. Just a quick hello before we get started.
1:03.2	Today, we're going to be talking about our childhoods.
1:05.7	And, well, I wrote a hilarious medium hilarious medium sad piece this weekend.
1:11.9	All about the people we think we might have been.
1:14.9	It's in the New York Times Sunday paper.
1:17.0	And if you look at that, you can see they made a cartoon montage of all my amazing ideas
1:20.8	of the people I thought I'd be.
1:22.2	Egyptologists, professional cross-ditcher,
1:24.9	Annaphrie Gables character?
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