Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I'm Katie from Wellnessmama.com and I am back today with

Danny Williamson to talk about a second topic which is that you are not your past and overcoming childhood

trauma and addressing adverse childhood experiences also called ACEs and how they can have a very much

real-world physical impact as adults. And she shares her

own story with this from a very tough childhood and tough conditions through much of life and how

she moved toward healing and even healed her body in the process. She explains what the ACE

index is, how to take this test, and how having a score of at least four can increase your risk of

earlier or shorten your lifespan by up to 20 years or your risk of dying goes up drastically

from this childhood trauma piece as well as how to address it. I love how she takes the whole body

into account in her approach. She runs Integrative Family Medicine and Wild

and Well in Brentwood, Tennessee, where she helps people from around the country. And she really does

combine the physical, the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of healing, both in her own

healing journey, where she reversed 24 years of chronic disease and in her work with many

patients from around the country. So let's

join Danny Williamson. Danny, welcome back. Thank you for being here again. Thank you.

If you guys missed our first episode together, we got to dive into the topic of inflammation and

Danny's six kind of steps and pillars to reducing that in our lives and also creating much more

health and cohesion in all aspects of our lives. We even got into the stress and community pieces.

It was phenomenal. I'll link to that in the show notes. And in this episode, I would love to get

even more vulnerable because I know this was a piece for me as well and talk about a topic that we

might not like to talk about

as much, which is instances of childhood trauma or as they're called in the literature,

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