88 - Dr. Nzinga Harrison on Overcoming ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Nzinga Harrison is the Co-Founder and CMO of Eleanor Health with more than 15 years experience practicing medicine. As the daughter of a public school teacher/administrator and an electrical engineer, who was also the commander of the local Black Panther Party, Nzinga shares intimately about the childhood experiences that led her to pursue a career in psychiatry and addiction treatment. She also shares where she feels the medical community is falling short in treating addiction treatment and what Eleanor Health is doing differently to actually deliver results.

Nzinga Harrison is a double-board certified physician with specialties in general adult psychiatry and addiction medicine. She completed undergraduate training at Howard University in Washington DC; medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and residency training at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Harrison has spent her career as a physician treating individuals from marginalized communities with substance use and other psychiatric disorders. As a physician executive, she has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer roles committed to creating and improving systems-based delivery of psychiatric and substance abuse care. She is a vocal advocate for stigma reduction, and is passionate about the necessity for whole-person care as individuals and communities seek to recover from and prevent substance use disorders.
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Positive Childhood Experiences Info
https://www.childandadolescent.org/positive-childhood-experiences/
https://www.youthranch.org/blog/7-positive-childhood-experiences-that-help-kids-grow-into-successful-adults
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2749336

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0:00.0	My fondest childhood memory is not having to spend 40 hours a week with people who make me feel angry
0:04.9	so that I can afford to buy paper towels and laundry detergent. My name is Andrea and this is adult child. to just let it all go.
0:23.0	What's making you slow now?
0:27.0	Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.
0:34.0	Ahoy, my shitty shit shows.
0:38.1	How we be doing?
0:39.7	For any new listeners, I'm Andrea, I'm a shit show, and I am currently sitting on the floor in my
0:47.2	closet hunched over like quasi-moto for your, for the visual there super professional over here. So today we are joined by I would like to just refer to her as a rather remarkable human. I have a feeling that you
1:06.0	will agree after listening to this. So we have Enzinga Harrison, she is a doctor, she is a psychiatrist, which I think is, that's my favorite kind of doctor, I got to say. I love me a psychiatrist.
1:21.0	And so I first came across her through her podcast. It's not active
1:26.9	anymore but you can still find the episodes on whatever the hell it is that
1:30.0	you're listening to this on. It's called in recovery where she covers a lot of
1:34.4	addiction related stuff a lot of the same topics that we cover on here. I think
1:39.6	especially for parents it would be a good thing to check out but she's somebody that has dedicated
1:46.2	her life to a lot of the topics that we talk about on this
1:55.0	co-founder and chief medical officer of Eleanor health.
1:59.0	So that is a mental health and addiction treatment provider.
2:02.0	They're located in seven different states right now. So they are going to be sponsoring the pod for the next month. So you'll be hearing a lot more about them in the future weeks and Zinga is also going to be sharing about
2:14.3	Eleanor as well. So one thing that I took away from this interview was that I
2:19.7	learned about pieces. Yes, pieces. So we've talked about aces on the podcast, adverse
2:27.1	childhood experiences, but unbeknownst to me there's also something called
2:31.1	pieces, positive childhood experiences.
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