Resilience may be the answer to recovering from youth stresses
“There was always something on fire,” she recalled.
With four decades of time and nearly an entire continent between her and the projects, Elizabeth Fitzgerald still carries the traces of her traumatic early childhood. Despite working her way through college and graduate school, earning a stable living as a counselor and in a safe environment, the events of her past still affect her physical and mental well-being.
A growing body of evidence is supporting what researchers first discovered 20 years ago, that adverse childhood experiences have a profound and long-lasting impact and can lead to both physical and mental health problems that can last a lifetime.
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