Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life

A neuroscientist explores how trauma impacts the brain, especially for women—and how we can learn to heal ourselves

Everyone experiences trauma. Whether a specific harrowing event or a series of stressful moments that culminate over time, trauma can echo and etch itself into our brain as we remember it again and again throughout our lives.

In Everyday Trauma, neuroscientist Dr. Tracey Shors examines trauma with a focus on its pervasive nature—how it can happen at any time, through big or sm...