Explore how childhood cultural messages shape adult intimacy, attachment, and relationships and learn how to rewrite inherited scripts with compassion and agency.

Explore how cultural expectations can prematurely shape childhood and learn why clinicians, educators, parents, and communities must work together to protect healthy development.

In a time of heightened conflict across the Middle East, children, throughout the region and now within Iran, are quietly bearing the burden of a world in crisis. Their wounds may not always bleed, but they run deep, and the experience has left a lasting, deeply embedded impact on the structure of their developing brains and nervous systems. To truly support these children, we must understand how trauma impacts them not only psychologically, but biologically and culturally as well.