Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 27 Apr
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Thank you so much for having me.
The biggest thing that will change in your life if you apply this is that stress is no longer going to be in the driver's seat of your life.
So what that means is understanding how stress gets under our skin and changes our biology allows us to use that biology and work with it instead of working against it.
And so it'll help us understand ourselves better and also to be able to understand the people in our lives better, right?
And so I think if folks really apply this science to their lives, what they'll find, number one, is...
that it can improve their health and well-being.
Number two, relationships will become less reactive and more connected.
And number three, it's a guidepost around how to set up your life for the support that we need to be functioning well.
in a way that's just more balanced and less effortful going forward.
At its core, trauma is the biological response to overwhelming stress.
So a lot of us think of it as the stressor, the thing that happened to us, but it's actually the body's reaction to that stress.
Well, to be honest, what really happened for me was I started my career, my clinical practice, opening a clinic in one of San Francisco's most underserved neighborhoods because I was really motivated by, you know, improving health outcomes for the vulnerable.
And what I was seeing was that over and over again, patients were being referred to me for ADHD or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
And as I was doing what I was trained to do, history and physical, just for a lot of my patients, it felt like there was a disconnect, right?
Because I noticed that
The patients who were struggling the most were also the ones who were dealing with some of the most difficult things in their lives, right?
The most stress and trauma going on around them.
But really the thing that kind of broke it open for me was a patient who was a little boy who stopped growing.
Literally.
So this was a seven-year-old child who was referred to me by the school nurse.
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