What Your Childhood Nervous System Is Still Doing to You

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of childhood experiences on the nervous system and mental health.

There is a curriculum that every human being completes in the first years of life. It has no textbooks. No teachers who know they are teaching. It’s woven into your childhood nervous system in early life. It happens in the space between a child and the people they depend on for survival. By the time […]

People in this episode

Host: Gil Winkelman ND MA

Topics covered

• childhood development
• nervous system
• psychology
• mental health
• survival
• human behavior

Keywords

• childhood
• nervous system
• development
• mental health
• psychology
• survival

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