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Self-Care Skills and Strategies for Foster Parents

By The Annie E. Casey Foundation — 2017

Helping children heal from abuse or neglect is rewarding but hard. Like the children in their care, kin and foster parents need to find ways of experiencing strong feelings without becoming overwhelmed.

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Can Trauma Really Be “Stored” in the Body?

Scientists now have more evidence than ever before revealing the intimate, intertwined relationship between the mind and body.

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Stephanie Eckelkamp
2019
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7 Ways Childhood Adversity Changes a Child’s Brain

If you’ve ever wondered why you’ve been struggling a little too hard for a little too long with chronic emotional and physical health conditions that just won’t abate, or feeling as if you’ve been swimming against some invisible current that never ceases, a new field of scientific research...

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2016
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Childhood Trauma Leads to Lifelong Chronic Illness—so Why Isn’t the Medical Community Helping Patients?

When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2016
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What Ails Us

Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.

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Tracy Frisch, Gabor Mate
2012
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