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Trauma for Breakfast

Trauma For Breakfast is a crowded table of wounded children, parents, spouses, caregivers and weary souls. Together we join in honest conversations about the behaviors and challenges of parenting children with trauma.There's always room for one more at the table to share in the stories, science and healing as we learn to better understand and care for each other. We are a table without shame or judgement because life can be hard and lonely and we all know, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

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Trauma for Breakfast

Let's Start with the Beginning in Mind - David Barko

April 30, 2025 • Stacey

Join me today as I speak with David Barko, the director of the Family Resource Center at Dignity Health – Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) in Prescott Valley, Arizona. David is an advocate for early childhood in numerous ways and has been a critical voice in moving the prenatal care team for woman with substance abuse issues forward across many barriers.

We know from decades of research and studies that the first five years of life are the single greatest amount of brain growth and development. It’s the time when so much of a person’s neurological and emotional foundations are literally being formed. Children are, in every definition, filled with potential. This podcast episode dives into this critical period and also brings in some of the science of epigenetics.

You won't want to miss this one!