Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain, Carol Gerhardt
Book Recommendation Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social…
Category: Nervous System
Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How they Shape Our Capacity to Love, Robert Karen
Book Recommendation The struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern psychology, one that touches us deeply because…
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk MD
Book Recommendation Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been…
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, Peter Levine
Book Recommendation In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain…
The Compassionate Mind, Paul Gilbert
Book Recommendation Throughout history people have sought to cope with a life that is often stressful and hard. We have actually known for some time…
Attachment and Conscious Parenting, Dr Gabor Mate
YouTube Video Gabor Mate, MD, author of Hold On to Your Kids, is interviewed by Lisa Reagan for Pathways to Family Wellness at his Kids,…
Presentations on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience, and Equity, Nadine Burke Harris
YouTube Video Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse,…
Reflections on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, Dr Vincent Felitti
YouTube Video Dr. Vincent Felitti, Director of the California Institutes of Preventive Medicine, presents his pioneering research examining Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and the lifelong…
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk MD
YouTube Video In this talk Bessel van der Kolk MD explores his decades-long research into trauma and PTSD which started when he was working with…
The Science of Feeling Safe: Polyvagal Theory, an interview with Dr Stephen Porges
YouTube Video Jim Donovan of Donovan Health speaks with Dr. Stephen Porges about the Polyvagal Theory. Listen as they discuss: How the vagus nerve is…