The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Written by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Narrated by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
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About this audiobook
Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, parental substance dependence, or mental illness. Even though these events may have occured long ago, they have the power to haunt us long into adulthood, and now we have found that they may even contribute to lifelong illness.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the founder/CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness and recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, expands on similar topics as in her popular TED talk as she demystifies the connection between adversity and ill health. After surveying more than 17,000 adult patients, she found that the higher a person’s ACE score, the worse their health. This led Burke Harris to an astonishing breakthrough—childhood stress changes our neural systems and its impact lasts a lifetime.
Through vivid storytelling that combines both scientific insight with deeply moving stories about her patients and their families, Burke Harris illuminates her journey of discovery from the academy to her own pediatric practice in San Francisco’s poverty-ridden Bayview Hunters Point. She re-roots the story of childhood trauma and its aftermath in science to help listeners see themselves and others more clearly.
For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in the The Deepest Well represents vitally important hope for change.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point. She has earned international attention for her innovative approach to addressing childhood stress as a risk factor for adult disease. She serves as expert advisor for the Clinton Foundation's Too Small to Fail Initiative and for California Governor Jerry Brown's Let's Get Healthy California Task Force. Her work has been profiled in The New Yorker, in Paul Tough's book How Children Succeed, and in Jamie Redford's film Resilience. Mother to four children, Dr. Burke Harris is the recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the American Academy of Peditarics and the author of The Deepest Well.
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Reviews for The Deepest Well
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Please read this book if you have ever experienced childhood experience trauma or if you know someone who has. It has helped me to make sense of what I am going through, and sometimes just understanding makes all the difference.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I’m certain this woman has FOLLOWED MY MOTHER AROUND WITH A NOTEBOOK. I’m shocked at the accuracy, speechless.
1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book! It gave a lot of information and insight into why we are the way we are and how it impacts our health, family & community. Powerful stuff!
I laughed, cried and cheered Dr Burke- Harris as she told us the story of her journey with ACEs.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a powerful book! Understanding the ways toxic stress and childhood adversity affects children, teens, young adults, and older adults is an amazing power. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has written a book that should become common literature for doctors, caregivers, and educators. New parents should have training in understanding childhood trauma and toxic stress. Educators should change the way things are done TODAY to help our children. And universal screening should be a must now. Filled with a great balance of common sense, medical terminology, and practicality, this book is a must read.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great book, written by a great woman about a great purpose affecting this greater world, right down to its core. It tackles the immense subject matter involved in the hereditary influence of Toxic Stress.
It has been pure pleasure to hear its author’s sincere and steady telling of how a grand idea and heart’s dream of a woman, not yet a practicing physician, came to be agreed upon and supported by many others who also yearned to see this particular dream come true.
The breadth of impact of the author’s final system of implementation is truly astonishing—breath-taking in its scope and its eventual integrative, functioning system and its effective presentation to those most in need of its wisdom around this world.
This is a book of dreams, written by a dreamer, and is meaningful to almost any reader—whether a dreamer or not! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book should be read by all humans because of the information it contains.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I amazing finds and research about an underlying factor which is driving much of our health. I wish I knew this years ago!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is beyond words. To hear it from the author was also great - you could feel her emotions through the various situations. Simply magic.
Her vision and dream is fantastic and I can say that for myself, her call to action was heard!! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book! If your someone looking for ways to heal or process childhood trauma then this is not that book BUT if you’re someone interested in learning more about the impact of adversity in childhood from an intellectual standpoint then this book is amazing! Incredibly detailed and provided a lot of science based information
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5It's a biography NOT "healing" nor related to healing in the matter of fact
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5As someone who faced childhood trauma and am now a sick adult trying to heal, the beginning of this book is highly triggering. I listened through several chapters, only to become more upset by her stories. It felt like a congratulatory story for her & her life amid upsetting stories about children. Probably a great book if you need educated on the topic, but if you lived it, consider skipping this.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you’re questioning if you should listen to this book or not.. DO IT. If you’re interested in this topic, it will definitely hold
Your attention. I laughed, I cried and I was inspired. So good - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I just wish she were Christian. Great book but there's more if she could collaborate with Dr. Caroline Leaf.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book was not the educational book about healing from trauma that I thought it was. This book was more like a memoir about a doctor's journey while working with those who suffered from adversity (trauma) as a child.