February 2023

Use the trauma lens when you approach the keyboard for writing that's hope focused rather than trauma inducing.

Estimated Deaths Attributable to Excessive Alcohol Use Among US Adults Aged 20 to 64 Years, 2015 to 2019 Marissa B. Esser, ET AL, JAMA NetwORK Open. 2022;5(11):e2239485. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.39485 Question What is the estimated proportion of deaths among US adults aged 20 to 64 years attributable to excessive alcohol consumption, and are there differences by sex, age, and US state? Findings The estimates in this cross-sectional study of 694 660 mean deaths per year between 2015...

Early Head Start/Head Start American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act grant recipients are facing challenges regarding how to spend down ARP funding by March 31, 2023. While initial funds were a critical lifeline to child care programs during the worst of the pandemic, there's still plenty that can be done to create stability in programs for the long-term; grant recipients know the importance of building workplace environments that are safe, equitable, trustworthy, and that support healing. At the...

I am so grateful to be a happy, relieved, published author! I hope you'll join me to celebrate the launch of my new book at my book launch party tonight on Zoom at 6pm. You must register to get the zoom link: https://lnkd.in/grjDgWqH There will be free giveaways, special trauma warrior guests Teri Wellbrock Kamphaus Wellbrock, Carey Sipp & Andi Fetzner Psy.D. Fetzner and tons of FUN! #CPTSDHealing #ComplexTraumaRecovery #CptsdAddiction #CptsdAlcoholic #EmotionalHealingProcess...

Combining three generations of family experience with ACES research and positive psychology, THE WINNING FAMILY helps prevent dysfunctional behaviors and discipline problems from the inside out.

Together with Central Jersey Family Health Consortium, Prevent Child Abuse-NJ will be hosting a mini conference on March 6th, 9am to 1pm at the Middlesex County Fire Academy in Sayreville. Our conference is titled “It Takes a Village: Supporting Early Parenting.” We will have some great speakers including our keynote speaker, Hilary Waller, who is the Director of Education and Programming and a psychotherapist at The Postpartum Stress Center. There is a $20 registration fee but scholarships...

In 2016, on the "old" ACEsConnection site, I posed the question: Was Jesus' ministry trauma-Informed? What resulted was a definition for a trauma-informed ministry that has been used and cited by others (based on the SAMHSA guidelines for a trauma-informed organization), a post that has been viewed over 4,000 times ( LINK ) and a curriculum that I wrote as part of my doctoral program at Multnomah Biblical Seminary in Portland, Oregon: Bruised Reeds and Smoldering Wicks . It is an eight-week...

Hello My Beloved PACEsconnection Community! Your Invited! I wanted to personally invite you to join me and my special trauma warrior guests, Carey Sipp, Andi Fetzner, and Teri Wellbrock for my Zoom Book Launch Party for my new book: "It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD"! There will be FREE giveaways, Q&A, special guests, and tons of FUN! To join the party you must register via the below Zoom link:...

IMAGE Source: John Thomson, 1869 / Welcome Collection When my youngest son was about seven, we lived in China for about two and a half years while he trained in Shaolin Kung Fu. We lived in rural mountainous regions and my son's life was consumed with training and competing. Our American passports, his fluent Mandarin and Kung Fu prowess paved the way for a good life in China. However, I was horrified by the pain I saw in other African people living in the region. I still remember the day...

By Sareen Habeshian, Axios.com, February 17, 2023 - One of the nation's largest food sanitation companies was fined $1.5 million for illegally employing more than 100 minors to carry out hazardous jobs, the Department of Labor announced Friday. Driving the news: Children as young as 13 were working with hazardous chemicals and cleaning meat processing equipment at 13 Packers Sanitation Services Inc. facilities in eight states, the department said its Wage and Hour Division investigation...

By Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Photo: From article, University of California, San Francisco, February 2023 These are unprecedented times. We need to work extra hard to manage our emotions well. Expect to have a lot of mixed feelings. Naturally we feel anxiety, and maybe waves of panic, particularly when seeing new headlines. An article by stress scientist and Vice Chair of Adult Psychology Elissa Epel, PhD, outlines the psychology behind the COVID-19 panic response and how we can try...

By Jill Suttie, Photo: From article, Greater Good Magazine, February 15, 2023 Are you suffering from chronic stress? Many of us are—whether we’re stressed out by our jobs, complicated relationships, caregiving responsibilities, or the general state of the world. That’s where Elissa Epel’s new book, The Stress Prescription , comes in. A health psychologist and director of the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center at the University of California, San Francisco, Epel explains how stress...