The Deepest Well

<p><strong>An extraordinary eye-opening book. --<em>People</em></strong></p><p><strong>National Health Information Awards winner</strong></p><p><strong>A rousing wake-up call. . . . This highly engaging provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress. --Michelle Alexander author of <em>The New Jim Crow</em></strong></p><p>Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego--a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual assault--who galvanized her journey to uncover the connections between toxic stress and lifelong illnesses.</p><p>The stunning news of Burke Harris's research is just how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs--adverse childhood experiences like abuse neglect parental addiction mental illness and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our <em>biological</em> systems and lasts a lifetime. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood or who cares about the millions of children who do the fascinating scientific insight and innovative acclaimed health interventions in <em>The Deepest Well </em>represent vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come?.</p><p> Nadine Burke Harris . . . offers a new set of tools based in science that can help each of us heal ourselves our children and our world.--Paul Tough author of <em>How Children Succeed</em></p><p> A powerful--even indispensable--frame to both understand and respond more effectively to our most serious social ills.--<em>New York Times</em></p>