Healthy Living Through Adversity part 2

Send us Fan Mail A rough childhood doesn’t just fade; it leaves tracks in the body and mind that can guide every choice we make. We sit down with Juan, who speaks candidly from inside prison about ACEs—Adverse Childhood Experiences—and how early abuse, neglect, and instability hardwire a constant state of threat. Together we unpack the brain’s threat circuit: the brainstem scanning for danger, the amygdala firing alarms, and the prefrontal cortex that goes offline when survival takes over. If...