Overcoming the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma: ACE Scores & EMDR Therapy

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, the Amens discuss the impact of childhood trauma on the brain and how it can set the stage for long-term physical and mental health problems. Tana also shares deeply personal insights into her own traumatic upbringing and healing journey.

00:00 Intro

00:42 Overcoming the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma

01:48 ACES Study

03:56 The ACES Questionairre

09:44 Overcoming Trauma

11:44 EMDR

16:45 ACES/SPECT Study

19:09 Sponsor

19:32 Face Recognition Study

20:45 Trauma and the 4 Circles

25:58 The Most Important Lessons from Trauma

29:19 Post-Traumatic Growth

30:06 Comparing Traumas

31:51 Resources/Wrap Up

EMDR International Association:

https://www.emdria.org

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0:00.0	For me, when I think about childhood adverse experiences and the social circle,
0:04.0	a big part of that in my mind is learning to draw healthy boundaries.
0:08.0	Because if you grow up in crazy, you know what I'm talking about.
0:11.0	Boundaries are critical.
0:13.0	I love you and I miss you.
0:14.0	It's something I learned how to say to certain people.
0:17.0	Or if I couldn't fix the relationship, if I couldn't help to figure out how to have a healthy
0:21.2	relationship with some of these people, then I had to love them from the distance.
0:25.1	And that just had to be okay.
0:26.5	Because there are some people that just weren't healthy for me.
0:30.9	Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse.
0:36.3	Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better
0:40.5	every day. On today's podcast, we're going to talk about overcoming the lasting impact of childhood trauma.
0:51.8	One of your favorite topics, you actually wrote a whole book about it,
0:55.7	called The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child. I love your book, and I love your story.
1:03.7	Yeah, I first became interested in this. I don't know if it was even because I really wanted to.
1:09.8	It's because I learned that I would die 20 years earlier if I didn't,
1:13.4	if I didn't start figuring out what to do.
1:16.6	You know, it's like you can't do anything, but if you have had, um,
1:21.8	early childhood trauma, um, we're going to talk more about this.
1:25.5	We're going to, we're going to start with the ACE test, the ACE score.
1:30.1	If you score a certain level on the ACE score, we'll get into this.
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