Jackson does a brilliant job of connecting early adverse childhood experiences to disregulation and dysfunction that often shows up later in human lives and bringing great suffering with it.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10 threads from
Donna Jackson
Nakazawa’s…

3. Thread 1:
Scientists are calling the correlation between
childhood trauma, brain architecture, and
adult well-being
the new psycho-
biological “theory
of everything.”
(pg. 24)

4. Thread 2:
Adverse Childhood
Experiences can reset
the immune system
so that you no longer
respond to stress
or you respond in
an exaggerated
way and can’t
shut off the
stress response.
(pg. 35)

5. Thread 3:
Adverse Childhood Experiences have a com-
mon denominator: They are all unpredictable.
The child can’t
predict when,
why or from
where the next
emotional or
physical hit is
coming from.
(pg. 41)

6. Thread 4:
ACEs induce microgilal cells to engulf
and destroy healthy neurons.
When they do
it’s tantamount
to murder.
(pg. 51)

7. Thread 5:
The Theory of
Desirable Difficulty
predicts an odd
benefit of early
trauma. In one
out of ten cases,
out of that
suffering and
despair arises an
indomitable force.
(pg. 62)

8. Thread 6:
Moderate stress
can be grist for
resiliency when
it’s not unexpected,
deeply personal,
chronic, or
perpetrated
by someone
you love.
(pg. 66)

9. Thread 7:
A difference between
character-building
experiences and toxic
stress is clear. It’s so
clear, I refer to
Chronic,
Unpredictable,
Toxic
Stress
as CUTS.
(pg. 67)

10. Thread 8:
The Sensitivity Gene works such that,
when “sensitive kids” are faced with
adversity, their
HPA stress axis
pumps out even
more stress hor-
mones. They get
a double dose of
inflammatory drip.
(pg. 76)

11. Thread 9:
Every physician sees patients with high ACE
scores every day. Typically they are the most
difficult patients.
Often they are
women. All too
often the under-
lying causes of
their illness will
be missed and
dismissed.
(pg. 113)

12. Thread 10:
If child abuse and neglect were to disappear
today, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
would shrink
to the size of
a pamphlet
in two
generations,
and the
prisons
would empty.
(pg. 228)

13. Thread 11:
The single biggest gift you can give your
children is to manage your own unresolved
issues, and
keep them
from spilling
over from
your childhood
into theirs.
(pg. 207

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