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This post started out to be a simple accumulation of this blog’s posts on right and left brain development – but the list of links a search of the blog brought to my attention on the topic was a massive one! I gave up trying to figure out which ones were best to highlight to help newly arrived blog readers understand the context of this blog, so here is (still only a partial) list of previous posts that form a foundation to the things I currently tend to write about on this blog related to how severe infant-child abuse and neglect can change early physiological development of the body-brain:
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+A COLLECTION OF POSTS RELATED TO — CALM — AND ABUSE RELATED COMPLICATIONS
+THE POWER OF LEARNING HOW TO SHORTCUT THE TRAUMA CYCLE
+NO REAL CHOICE: WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND OUR DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES FROM INFANT-CHILD ABUSE – NOW!
+A COLLECTION OF THIS BLOG’S LINKS ON DISSOCIATION AND DISORGANIZED-DISORIENTED INSECURE ATTACHMENT
EARLY TRAUMA BUILDS DISSOCIATION INTO THE BRAIN
**Containment and the hemispheres
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+SIEGEL ON DEVELOPING CHILD’S BRAIN – ATTACHMENT
+SIEGEL – ANTICIPATION, TIME AND COHERENCE OF MIND
+ANTI-DISSOCIATION: REMEMBERING THE FEELING OF FEELING ONE’S SELF IN ONE’S LIFE
+DISSOCIATION: MEMORY OF ONGOING EXPERIENCE FROM THE PREY’S POINT OF VIEW
+INFANT-CHILD ABUSE: WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS, THE BRAIN CHANGES
+INFANT-CHILD ABUSE: WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS, THE BRAIN CHANGES
+SCHORE ON BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
+HOW DOES THE SELF GET FORMED? HERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF IMPORTANT INFO
+HEALING TRAUMA AT OUR BODY-BRAIN CENTER
+SIEGEL – UNRESOLVED TRAUMA – INFLUENCE SELF-ORGANIZATION THROUGH GENERATIONS
+INFO ON WINDOWS OF EMOTIONAL TOLERANCE
+OUR STRESS RESPONSE IS WHAT WE PASS DOWN TO OUR KIDS
+INFANT-CHILD TRAUMA CHANGES THE VAGUS NERVE’S DEVELOPMENT
+CALM THE CRYING BABY — IMMUNE SYSTEM STIMULATES VAGUS NERVE TRAUMA ALTERED DEVELOPMENT
+MY MOTHER’S VAGUS NERVE: THE MAKING OF HER PERFECT BORDERLINE STORM?
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+IT WASN’T FUNNY: THE BUZZARD THAT ATE MY MOTHER
+SOMETHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG WITH MY MOTHER’S PRECUNEUS
+ABUSIVE PARENTS HAVE THE WEAKEST SELVES POSSIBLE
+THE TOPIC OF TEASING: TOO HARD TO CONSIDER?
+A LONG, THOUGHTFUL LOOK AT VERBAL ABUSE AS MALIGNANT TEASING
+THE ‘TERROR-ABLE’ CONSEQUENCES OF INFANT-CHILDHOOD VERBAL ABUSE
+IN THE PRESENCE OF LAUGHTER WE ARE SAFE, SECURE AND FREE
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+REALLY COOL WEBSITE ON THE BRAIN
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+LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT BRAIN — ‘WHO’ HAS THE TRUTH?
++NOTES ON RIGHT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
++SCHORE ON DEVLOPMENT OF RIGHT BRAIN
++NOTES ON SCHORE – RIGHT BRAIN
+SIEGEL ON LEFT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
+SIEGEL ON RIGHT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
+SIEGEL ON BRAIN INTEGRATION PROCESSES – SELF ORGANIZATION
+SEIGEL ON BRAIN LATERALIZATION
+SEIGEL ON LATERALIZATION (more)
+SIEGEL ON BRAIN HEMISPHERE CONSCOUSNESS
+SIEGEL – EMOTIONAL REGULATION
** Schore – Notes on Developmental Emotional Dysregulation
**Dr. Allan Schore on Emotional Regulation – Notes
+SEIGEL ON EMOTION AND BRAIN REGIONS
+SIEGEL – EMOTIONS AND A SENSE OF TIME
++SCHORE ON MATERNAL-INFANT MIND SHAPING
+SIEGEL – EMOTIONAL REGULATION AND DISORGANIZED ATTACHMENT
+SEIGEL ON EARLY TRAUMA, I CALL A BROKEN HEART
+SEIGEL ON RESPONSE FLEXIBILITY
+EXTREME STATES AND BRAIN REWIRING
+LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER AND HIGHER BRAIN: MY RIGHT TO WRITE!
+GENDER AND THE BRAIN — DIFFERENCES AND EARLY TRAUMA
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+HAVE FUN WITH THIS SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL BRAIN BUILDING EXERCISE!
+WHAT WE MOST NEED TO KNOW: HOW MOTHERING BUILDS THE INFANT BRAIN
+MOTHERING: WHEN IT’S RIGHT, WHEN IT’S WRONG
+ATTACHMENT – HOW WE ARE WHO WE ARE
+TO BE OR NOT TO BE A TRAUMA-CHANGED HUMAN — THE QUALITY OF MOTHERING HOLDS THE ABSOLUTE KEY
+”MOTHER! WHERE ART THOU?” — RESPONDING TO AN INFANT-CHILD’S CRY OF NEED
+PLAY AS AN INDICATOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY IN A BENEVOLENT WORLD
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+THOUGHTS ON THE TRIGGER POINT OF SHAME
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+PTSD AND SEVERE CHILD ABUSE SURVIVORSHIP – PART ONE
+PTSD AND SEVERE ABUSE SURVIVORSHIP – PART TWO
+PTSD AND SEVERE ABUSE SURVIVORSHIP – PART THREE
+PTSD AND SEVERE ABUSE SURVIVORSHIP – CONCLUSION
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+EARLY ABUSE AFFECTS OUR REACTION TO ADULT TRAUMA EXPOSURE
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+DISSOCIATION AND THE TRAUMA-SPECIALIZED BRAIN
+DISSOCIATION FROM CHILD ABUSE NEVER LEAVES US
*FURTHER UNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT DISSOCIATION
+CHILDHOOD DISSOCIATION, DEPERSONALIZATION, DEREALIZATION – I NEVER HAD A CHOICE TO BE OR NOT TO BE
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+ALL OF ME. I DON’T HAVE ‘A CHILD WITHIN’
+RETURNING WITH AGE TO HOW I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AND DIDN’T KNOW IT: DISSOCIATED+I WILL NEVER BE ORDINARY. IT IS TIME FOR ME TO KNOW THIS TRUTH.
+BEING MY MOTHER’S IMAGINARY SWORN ENEMY
+CRY FOR THE NIGHTBIRDS – SOME CHILDREN NEED TO BE SAVED FROM THEIR PARENTS
+THE COMPLEXITIES OF SECURE AND INSECURE ATTACHMENT – DO-IT-YOURSELF STUDY LINKS
+BELOW THE SURFACE – THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SEVERE EARLY CHILD ABUSE, EAGLES AND BUZZARDS
+BEING HUMAN, ANIMAL OR OBJECT?
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+SECURE AND INSECURE ATTACHMENT AND THE CHILDHOOD NARRATIVE
+THE POWER OF JOURNALING – ASKING A QUESTION THAT HAS AN ANSWER
+WRITING ABOUT OUR SEVERE EARLY TRAUMAS FROM THE INSIDE OUT
+WHEN OUR TEARS TAKE AWAY OUR WORDS – WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR TRAUMAS?
+WE NEED NEW WORDS TO DIALOG WITH OUR BODY ABOUT TRAUMA
*BEING WITNESS TO MY OWN ABUSE
+HOW DO WE LIVE WELL WHEN WE HAVE TOO MUCH TRAUMA INFORMATION
+MARCHING ON TO VICTORY OVER TRAUMA
+EARLY CHILDHOOD ADVERSE EXPERIENCES
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+OUR DISTURBED NATURAL INTERNAL OPIOID (OPIATE) SYSTEM
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*DAMASIO NOTES – feeling of what happens
**DAMASIO ON NEUROLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
**DAMASIO ON CORE CONSCIOUSNESS
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Stop the Storm 
[…] +A COLLECTION OF LINKS ON BODY-BRAIN CHANGES CAUSED BY EARLY INFANT-CHILD ABUSE […]
p.s I LOVE the way your daughter has organized your questions to assist you with the writing. I see that you have so much to say but that you can get STUCK and go nowhere without direction and guidance..STORY OF MY LIFE! as i mentioned ,i thought it was cause maybe I was stupid…BUT i am NOT! this is so new for me…telling myself I am NOT! This I now see is what trauma does to you. I look at you, and yes, u are an inspiration to me, and you are very bright and have a beautiful way with expressing your words..but you too have that disorganized brain.
That is so freeing to me !!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxo
The crowning glory of my LIFETIME is that I DID NOT pass ‘this’ onto my children!!!!!
Yep! She sounds like a wonderful daughter. It is going to be very grueling for her to have to hear your stories(if u are going to include them?) but when something that was suppose to ruined turns into beauty and blessing as your life has..It must be shared so that it can continue to be used to help others find healing and blessing and hope.
Much Love!
You are exactly correct. She has never heard or read my stories – could not bear to. That will a part of her process – to somehow find a way to tolerate the truth. Your description “very grueling” is an excellent one!
I am wondering if somehow the fact that she wrote the 19 questions I will be answering might be helpful in some way to provide ‘context’ and ‘structure’ to what she will have to read. This is also part of the reason that our combined process disallows her from reading one single word of what I write until I have answered all 19. Then — ?!?!?!?!
She is clear and strong and healthy and I know she will figure out her end!! Thanks for your attention to her part of it!!!! Much love!
yes please do..I have actually been searching for that info on the teenage brain.(adolsecence) Put my order in for ur book!!! Cant wait! will be wonderful. Always appreciate reading from a REAL EXPERT ,someone who has walked the talk. Thats why your blog is so special.
xoxo
have a great day!
Oh boy! Linda, you are an angel. Thankyou so much for taking the time to compile these all together. I will take my time digesting them. I know you place a lot of emphasis on how the brain changes as an infant to age three. As I have no memory myself of that age but very clear memory of being repeatedly placed in a state of terror sometimes on a daily basis from ages 12 to 18. I am wondering if the brain can still change at that age? I know I have heard Dr.Phil say that when we are teenagers our brains are not yet finished growing. I was put in the flight and flight mode so often I am surpirsed it contined to work. Today,someone just walks into a room and I jump.But, I am understanding so much more about my difficulties since I have found this site! For example,whenever I get overwhelmed and feel stuck…I have begun thinking to myself,”its ok,this is just a reminder of what ur body has been through so many times before”.But ,your not there anymore,and for the first time I may even break into a half smile! I feel a freedom that I have never felt before.Maybe its because I have found validation in this blog,or maybe I found the answers I have been looking for for so long.
Linda,I am so thankful for you and for this blog.
xo
Oh, your words about the blog make me SMILE! I am so grateful!
I know many folks do not remember the earliest traumas — but I don’t believe our childhoods often just take a massive turn ‘to the worst’ — the patterns are most often there from our birth — and our body does not lie/it remembers everything – even when we have no words (and didn’t when ‘things’ happened to/around us)!
Yes! Your self-gentleness rings loud and clear in your words here – so important!!
I will say here for the first time that my daughter and I have tonight begun work on our book!! I will be occupied with that writing for several months, but our agreement is that I don’t write on the blog about what I am writing for the book as we go along. That will be hard for me, but I hope I can be true to our agreement — and that I can still find things (not book related) to post on the blog!
We have a kind of complicated arrangement we are pursuing for the book’s writing. She has designed 19 questions for me to answer, one at a time. We have the time frame for my answering, etc. and this will take between 3 and 5 months. Then we will pull it all together. Exciting!!
I hope what you read on the links I posted today will make sense as time goes on. I spent a lot of time in the past with Siegel’s and Schore’s books – the links are to excerpts I found most relevant as I read their work.
But – I better eat supper! Oh, on the teenage brain – no, the higher cortical (cortex) regions don’t fully develop until age 25-30. Trauma and abuse during those formative stages also affect the brain’s development! Maybe I can do a post soon just on this topic. All the best! Linda – alchemynow