Welcome to your Recovery Brain

A neurologically informed recovery resource

Domestic violence, failed relationships and addiction are now increasingly being understood as symptoms of a difficult childhood.

For those of us recovering from the effects of trauma and adverse childhood experiences, reliable and credible advice is often hard to find. This site is designed as a resource that combines the trusted results of collective lived experience with recent research.

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Ivan’s Story

In this video, recorded at his property near Byron Bay, Ivan Clarke describes the childhood traumas he went through. He outlines how those childhood traumas propelled...

Trauma

Trauma is the Greek word for wound. Unaddressed trauma changes how we react to the world and when triggered, we can do things that sometimes have devastating...

Attachment 101

How we bond with our caregivers in early childhood determines the quality of our life as adults. We can be plagued by insecurity, low self worth and the inability to...