**Breaking the Pattern: Epigenetics, Early Adversity, and the Possibility of Change with Dr. Bonnie Goff**
Hosts Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns welcome developmental psychologist and UCLA lecturer Dr. Bonnie Goff for a conversation about how our earliest experiences shape the brain, nervous system, relationships, and sense of self. Dr. Goff reframes many responses to early adversity not as damage, but as intelligent adaptations designed for survival—and explores what neuroscience, attachment research, epigenetics, and neuroplasticity reveal about our capacity for change.
Together, they discuss prenatal stress, co-regulation, rupture and repair, resilience, attachment, adult relationships, parenting, and the ways unconscious patterns can travel across generations. Most importantly, the conversation reminds us that development is not destiny: with awareness, connection, compassion, and new experiences, patterns can change—and what we heal today can influence the generations that follow.
**Learn more about Dr. Bonnie Goff:**DrBonnieGoff.comInstagram: @drbonniegoff
**Learn more about APPPAH:**BirthPsychology.comAssociation for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology and Health
