In 1996 researchers linked childhood stress to adult illness
According to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) studies – the rougher your childhood, the higher your risk for health problems in adult years.
ACEs – are traumatic events that can have negative, lasting effects on health and well-being; ranging from physical, emotional or sexual abuse, parental divorce, parent going to prison, abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, unhealed childhood trauma, bullying, hospitalisation, witnessing a violent death, traumatic birth, financial crisis, homelessness, natural disasters, living with depressed or alcoholic parents, feeling insecure and unsupported and feeling humiliated and unsafe in the family structure.
ACE’s leads to a chronic state of “fight, flight or freeze” and researchers at Yale University showed that when inflammatory stress hormones flood a child’s body and brain, they alter the genes that manage the stress reactions, and reset the stress response to “high” for life.
ACE’s affects the persons inflammatory responses, increasing the risk of inflammation and thereby making it twice as likely to get cancer, heart disease, diabetes, migraines, irritable bowel disease, autoimmune diseases, depression and gluten sensitivity as an adult.
If this resonates with you, your life and history – call Peta and make an appointment to work through your past, understand the processes, feel the emotions, clear the anger and pain, let go and move forwards.
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Peta Zafir (Owner and Head Therapist)
