Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist, public speaker, and author of The Last Best Cure, in which she chronicled her yearlong journey to health, and The Autoimmune Epidemic, an investigation into the reasons behind today’s rising rates of autoimmune diseases. She is also a contributor to the Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Library book Integrative Gastroenterology. Ms. Nakazawa lectures nationwide. Learn more at DonnaJacksonNakazawa.com.
"A truly important gift of understanding—illuminates the
heartbreaking costs of childhood trauma and like good medicine
offers the promising science of healing and prevention."
*Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path With Heart*
"This groundbreaking book connects the dots between early life
trauma and the physical and mental suffering so many live with as
adults. Author Donna Jackson Nakazawa fully engages us with
fascinating, clearly written science and moving stories from her
own and others' struggles with life-changing illness. Childhood
Disrupted offers a blend of fresh insight into the impact of trauma
and invaluable guidance in turning toward healing!"
*Tara Brach, Ph.D. Author of Radical Acceptance and True
Refuge*
"Long overdue . . . Childhood Disrupted is a
courageous,compassionate and rigorous every-persons guide through
the common roots and enduring impact of childhood trauma in each of
our lives. Linking breakthrough science with our everyday lived
experience, Childhood Disrupted inescapably and artfully leads the
reader to take practical steps and grasp the urgency of coming to
terms with and taking a stand to heal the legacy of trauma in our
personal and collective lives. This book reframes the common
experience of childhood trauma through a lens of possibility for a
life and society with an inexhaustible commitment to the safe,
stable and nurturing relationships our health and healing
require."
*Christina Bethell, PhD, MBH, MPH Professor of Child Health, Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health*
"Donna Jackson Nakazawa’s Childhood Disrupted masterfully captures
the complexity of how early life adversity imprints on our biology
and stalks our health into adulthood. Heart rending stories of
hardship and triumph laced with medical facts and findings creates
a framework of practical advice for remaining unbroken in a
challenging world."
*Margaret M McCarthy, PhD, Professor and Chair, Dept. of
Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine*
“Donna has once again taken a difficult medical topic and made it
not only easy to understand, but a great read. Eye-opening and
inspiring, Childhood Disrupted provides a paradigm-shifting road
map for understanding how early stress is linked to later illness,
and offers a must-read vision for how to begin healing at any age.
This book will help readers and especially women better understand
the biology of stress, and jump start important new conversations
about our health and well-being!"
*DeLisa Fairweather, PhD, Director of Cardiovascular Translational
Research, Mayo Clinic*
“Childhood Disrupted helps shift the paradigm in our understanding
of health and well-being by unveiling the role that early adversity
plays in our physical and emotional adult health. Donna offers a
missing piece of the puzzle as to why women suffer in
disproportionate numbers from chronic physical and mental health
conditions, and opens a new and much-needed door for healing.”
*Amy Myers MD author, New York Times Best Seller - The Autoimmune
Solution*
"Childhood Disrupted is a timely book that summarizes the effects
of childhood adversity, incorporating the current science in a very
personalized and approachable way. The more we understand about
childhood adversity and its imprint on our body and brain, the more
we can help each other recover from its harmful effects. This is an
important read for anyone looking to help those afflicted by
childhood adversity, whether personally or in a caring role such as
parents, teachers, and health care workers."
*Ryan Herringa, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Child &
Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine &
Public Health*
"Every few years a book comes along that changes the way we view
ourselves, our society, and our place in the world. This is such a
book. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, Childhood Disrupted
contains surprising insights into the power of childhood experience
on every page."
*Shannon Brownlee, MS, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine
is Making Us Sicker and Poorer and senior vice president of the
Lown Institute*
"In this stimulating book that eloquently describes the effects of
one's biography on mind, brain, and body, Nakazawa guides us
through a step by step path to recovery. This work represents an
invaluable source of hope and inspiration for anyone who is
suffering from the aftermath of early adverse experience."
*Ruth A Lanius, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harris-Woodman
Chair, director, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research
unit, University of Western Ontario*
"If you want to know why you’ve been married three times. Or why
you just can’t stop smoking. Or why the ability to control your
drinking is slipping away from you. Or why you have so many
physical problems that doctors just can’t seem to help you with. Or
why you feel as if there’s no joy in your life even though you’re
'successful' . . . Read Childhood Disrupted, and you’ll learn that
the problems you’ve been grappling with in your adult life have
their roots in childhood events that you probably didn’t even
consider had any bearing on what you’re dealing with now. Donna
Jackson Nakazawa does a thorough and outstanding investigation of
exactly how your childhood made you ill and/or joyless, and how you
can heal."
*Jane Stevens, editor, ACEsConnection.com*
"Childhood Disrupted is a book of major significance that describes
clearly and understandably what has been learned in recent years
about the important subject of human development and how what
happens in childhood affects our well-being, biomedical health,and
life expectancy as adults. It will be appreciated by many."
*Vincent J. Felitti, MD, CEO, The California Institute of
Preventive Medicine*
“Childhood Disrupted is a must have book for every person with
facing mental or physical health challenges and their loved
ones—and an inspiring read for every health care professional.”
*Gerard E. Mullin MD, Associate Professor of Medicine The Johns
Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, author of The Gut Balance
Revolution: Boost Your Metabolism, Retore Your Inner Ecology and
Lose the Weight for Good!*
"Nakazawa writes compassionately for readers struggling to make
sense of what happened during their childhoods and how their health
may be affected . . . [An] engaging work of scientific
translation."
*Health Affairs*
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