The Deepest Well

Part professional memoir, part advocacy apple crate pitch, part self-promo, this engaging book by paediatrician Nadine Burke Harris chronicles her work in linking science around developmental trauma and lifelong health outcomes with applied practice as a doctor and health professional. It's a must read for any health professional, regardless of your familiarity with ACEs or the physiology of the stress response.

Burke-Harris' occasional venture into that tenor of self promotion common to American entrepreneurism is not too invasive and can be seen as a creature of the environment she campaigned within.

I thought the book did an okay job introducing childhood trauma, but it should've went in more depth about the implications of childhood trauma that isn't just directed from the parents. I think that exploring other factors of childhood trauma, such as bullying from school settings and experiencing racism from growing up in a predominantly white town, would've improved the book by a lot.