Susan Gold was raised in a small rural town in central Pennsylvania and faced trauma as the middle child in a violent and chaotic household. Her brilliant, alcoholic, astrophysicist father and equally ingenious, mentally ill, homemaking mother collided in dysfunction. As a sibling in a family of five children in short succession, she experienced rampant covert and overt abuse. Hurt and damaged children frequently raise more hurt and damaged children. Susan chose, instead, to be a chain breaker. She determined how to gain benefit from the somatic approach to learning how the mind and body function in concert with stimuli. You can read more about her upbringing in "Toxic Family: Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom," available everywhere books are sold. You can schedule a consultation with Susan at http://susangoldconsulting.com/.
