Childhood Trauma Informed Stewart´s Legislative Success
(WorldNews Mexico)

Santa Fe - She was 3 years old when her father died in a car crash and 17 when her mother committed suicide. In between those bookends of loss, she lived with the man she refers to as `my evil stepfather.` He demeaned her, her two older sisters and her younger brother, and punished them with a belt when they didn´t meet his exacting standards. At night, he crept into her bedroom. `He would reach under my pajamas and start,` she says. Decades of therapy after a nervous breakdown have led Mimi Stewart, at age 70, to a place where she can talk about her childhood trauma. Stewart was a state representative for 20 years and has served in the Senate since 2014. She can be abrupt and hectoring in...