Tom Glaser

Sure.

Yeah.

Wow.

Great words, by the way.

And thank you for the kudos.

Yeah, I got into the work sort of by accident, right?

When I was in graduate school, the word trauma, I don't remember that word

coming up, maybe it was, and I don't remember.

The concept was that, I remember the concept of the hardest thing that ever happened to you.

I remember that coming up in graduate school, but you know, we learned really it was through the Vietnam War, right?

That the research really came out and we learned that.

So there are these, you know, really commonly understood,

causes of trauma like war and famine and dislocation sexual assault everybody understands that those are traumas but what we learned over the time is that other experiences particularly in childhood have the same effect on the nervous system and on the body and that's how we get into my story so I um

From the outside, my childhood would have looked ideal to many people, right?

We were fairly well off, right?

We never struggled for the basics.

Educated, you know, we did some travel.

All six of us loaded into the station wagon and went to Washington, D.C.

or North Carolina to the coast in the summer.

But behind closed doors, things weren't so perfect appearing.