Breaking The Bonds of Abuse (with Jennifer Fraser)

<p><span style= "color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 11ptpx;font-family: Arial;"> Mark speaks with Jennifer Fraser, best-selling author, award-winning educator with a PhD in Comparative Literature. Through personal experience and extensive research, Jennifer uncovered how bullying affects the brain and how the brain can heal, which she details in her new book, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health.</span><br /></p> <p><span style= "color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 11ptpx;font-family: Arial;"> Today, Commander Divine speaks with Jennifer Fraser, best-selling author, award-winning educator with a PhD in Comparative Literature. In the episode, Jennifer shares how bullying affects the brain and how the brain can heal—detailed in her newest book, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health.</span><br /> <br /> <br /></p> <p><span style= "color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 11ptpx;font-family: Arial;"> Key Takeaways:</span><br /></p> <p><span style= "color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 11ptpx;font-family: Arial;"> The brain science of abuse. A bullied brain is an unhealthy brain, displaying neurological changes whether the bullying is physical or emotional. We can analyze this on brain scans, brain mapping technology, and correlate it to psychological manifestations in the brain.</span><br /></p> <p><span style= "color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 11ptpx;font-family: Arial;"> The psychology of bullying: the Victim and the Favored. Jennifer shares the psychology of the bully stories such as Larry Nassar, which feature bully normalization, co-opting parents into being complicit, and the extensive damage caused in athlete victims AND those witnessing the abuse.</span><br /></p> <p><span style= "color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 11ptpx;font-family: Arial;"> Child abuse is indicative of later chronic illness. Child abuse comes in many forms (emoti