Explore how childhood physical abuse rewires the brain for anger responses and discover science-backed strategies to break intergenerational cycles of abuse through understanding trauma patterns.

Understanding anger management. Why children who are physically abuse grow up to have urges to also abuse when angry.


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Lena: Hey everyone, welcome back! I'm Lena, and today Eli and I are diving deep into something that's both heartbreaking and hopeful-understanding the cycle of anger and abuse, and why children who experience physical abuse sometimes struggle with those same urges as adults.
Eli: Absolutely, Lena! I'm Eli, and this is such an important conversation. We're going to explore the fascinating-and honestly, quite sobering-research on how childhood trauma literally rewires our brains and emotional responses, but also how understanding these patterns gives us the power to break them.
Lena: Exactly. And I think our listeners are going to be surprised by just how much science has revealed about these connections in recent years.