Adult Responses to Adverse Childhood Experiences
About this episode
The episode explores how adverse childhood experiences affect adult behavior and the importance of understanding individual trauma.
Send us Fan Mail Some of the behaviors you hate most about yourself might be proof that your brain did its job. Lauren Starnes joins me for a role-reversal conversation where she asks the questions and we go deep on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), childhood trauma, and the nervous system patterns that can follow us into adulthood. We break down what an ACE score actually measures, why trauma is individual, and why the point is never comparison, it’s clarity. We connect the dots between...
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Host: Amy Watson
Guest: Lauren Starnes
Topics covered
- adverse childhood experiences
- childhood trauma
- nervous system patterns
- adult responses
- individual trauma
- clarity over comparison
Keywords
- ACEs
- trauma
- nervous system
- adult behavior
- childhood experiences
- mental health
- clarity
- comparison
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