Dr Pepper: When Childhood Safety is Shattered Chapter 5

For children, safety isn’t just about locked doors. It’s about knowing that caregivers will protect them when danger arises. In Chapter 5 of A Story of Mind over Matter, Cassie’s parents dismissed her fears as silly or exaggerated. Instead of feeling protected, she was told to endure the terror alone, and her nervous system went into overdrive. Her body kept the score, even when her parents minimized the threat.

Children who grow up in unsafe or unpredictable environments develop what we call toxic stress responses. Instead of feeling calm at home, their nervous system is locked into fight, flight, or freeze. For Cassie, that looked like trembling, tears, sleepwalking, and hypervigilance—checking locks, carrying wasp spray, and listening for every sound. These are not overreactions. They are survival strategies the body creates when adults fail to provide protection.

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