In this episode of the Just For Today podcast, Adriana sits down with Dr. Storage, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, to explore the deep connections between grief, trauma, and addiction. Adriana shares her personal journey of navigating the loss of her husband Eric and raising three young, grieving children. Dr. Storage explains that mental health is physical brain health, breaking down how emotionally traumatic experiences can literally alter blood flow and activity in the brain.

This conversation dives deep into:

- The reality that trauma gets locked into the brain at the specific developmental age at which it occurred.

- Why children often experience and display grief as behavioral changes, anger, or developmental regression rather than just sadness.

- The science behind addiction, explaining how subst ...