Does childhood trauma live in the body forever? And, if it does, can it have long-term or even lifelong effects not only on mental and emotional health but also on physical health? And is there reason for hope in treating it? Those were the big questions taken up at a Zócalo Public Square event by Nadine Burke Harris, founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point district, and the author of The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity.” Burke Harris was speaking with Carol S. Larson, president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, at the event, titled “Does Childhood Trauma Live in the Body Forever?” at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles.
