Brain Changes in Response to Trauma

Welcome back to lesson two on healing the traumatised brain. This course is designed to help you understand how the experience of trauma early in our lives can impact on brain development and psychological well-being, and learn how you can repair your brain and heal from such experiences.
I hope you found lesson one interesting and helpful in starting to understand more about how the brain develops during childhood and how it responds to stress experienced in life under typical circumstances, outside of those we would deem “traumatic”.
In this lesson, we are going to think together about what we mean by “traumatic” in terms of life experiences and specifically how exposure to trauma can have a profound impact on how our brain is wired up during childhood, and consequently, how it can change how we function.