Dr. Don WoodResolving Your Trauma-Based Challenges So You Can Unlock Peak Performance

How to Heal Childhood Trauma?

16 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Don Wood explains that unresolved childhood trauma (emotional neglect, sexual abuse, household violence) triggers inflammation — an adaptive cell-danger response — and that when this inflammation becomes chronic it contributes to disease by dysregulating immune-related genes. He argues resolving childhood trauma improves physical and emotional health and ends with a call-to-action to seek help via a link in the bio.

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Childhood trauma is experiences as you were growing up that have been either disturbing or traumatic. It could come from emotional neglect, sexual abuse, having a parent in the household who's violent. Why it's so important to resolve this childhood trauma. Unresolved childhood trauma will create inflammation. Inflammation is the response to trauma, whether it's physical or emotional. Inflammation is a cell danger response designed to protect the system. So a lot of people say, well, inflammation is at the root cause of all dise. That's not completely true. It's chronic inflammation that is at the root cause of these diseases because the chronic inflammation is just staying on. It's not meant to stay on. It's meant to turn on and turn off based on a threat. The problem is we store memory of these threats, which keeps the inflammation active. So when the genes that regulate inflammation upregulate, the genes that regulate your immune system down regulate what's going to happen. If your immune system is low and stays low, you're going to be much more susceptible to disease, and even just flus and colds, things like that. So it's so critical to get this childhood trauma resolved. You'll see a change in your personal life, physically and emotionally. If you want to resolve your childhood trauma, click the link in our bio.