The Wellness Mama Podcast

You Are Not Your Past: Overcoming Childhood Trauma and Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) With Dani Williamson

Katie Wells/Dani Williamson Episode 951

Episode Highlights With Dani

  • Her own story and dramatic experience with adverse childhood experiences
  • The childhood trauma she had and how her health problems started in high school from those experiences
  • Data on ACE (adverse childhood experiences) and how a score of 4 or more is linked to a 20 year reduction in life expectancy
  • How she addressed her own trauma and what she recommends to her patients
  • Many people who come see her have never addressed or even considered childhood trauma
  • Shifting the identity of being sick or coming from trauma 
  • You are not your past and how to move through childhood trauma 

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