Books by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Guided Journal
Neuroscience-Based Writing Practices to Rewire Your Brain from Trauma

Published by New Harbinger Publications – August 2024

The trauma of your past can’t be undone, but you can take charge of how it affects you. This compassionate journal offers a safe space to help you process, heal, and reclaim your power.

Girls on the Brink
Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media

Published by Harmony – September 2022

15 revelatory strategies for raising emotionally healthy girls, based on cutting-edge science that explains the modern pressures that make it so difficult for adolescent girls to thrive.

The Angel and the Assassin
The Tiny Brain Cell that Changed the Course of Medicine

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED

Published by Ballantine Books – January 2020

A page-turning story of scientific detective work and thrilling medical potential, The Angel and the Assassin illuminates the newly-understood role of microglia—an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday lives.

Childhood Disrupted
How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology And How You Can Heal

Published by Atria Books – July 2016

A groundbreaking book showing the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, and cancer—Childhood Disrupted also explains how to cope with these emotional traumas and even heal from them.

The Last Best Cure
My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life

Published by Avery – February 2013

Having suffered for over a decade from a range of chronic autoimmune disorders, one day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her: she had learned to manage her symptoms well enough, but she had lost her joy.

The Autoimmune Epidemic
Bodies Gone Haywire in a World out of Balance and the Cutting Edge Science that Promises Hope

Published by Touchstone/Simon and Schuster
paperback February 2009

Multiple sclerosis, lupus, Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and nearly a hundred other chronic autoimmune illnesses are part of this devastating epidemic, in which the human body, acting on misread signals, literally begins to destroy itself. Alarmingly, the occurrence of many of these diseases has more than doubled in the last three decades, signaling a disturbing trend that can be directly tied to environmental factors in everyday modern life…

Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?
A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children

Published by Da Capo Press / paperback March 2004

A psychologically wise guide to helping multiracial children of all ages develop confidence and a healthy understanding of their uniqueness.

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Integrative Gastroenterology
Contributing Author, Chapter 26 “What Patients Want from Their Doctors”

Edited by Gerard Mullin MD
Weil Integrative Medicine Library

Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Books by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Donna Jackson Nakazawa

author of Girls on the Brink and Childhood Disrupted