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I finished my last post with: Just over a year ago, I learned about a reliable, intensively researched and simple biometric that measured the health of the brain, nervous system and all the other systems (digestion, immune, cardiovascular, respiratory) that were negatively impacted by trauma. Research also showed that this biometric effectively measures improvements or declines in social, emotional, and physical health. ( Click here for full post ) In the history of medicine and psychology,...

Donna Jackson Nakazawa is interviewed for Healing Our Ghosts about her new book. She provides a radical new way of thinking about the brain and its interaction with the rest of the body. Donna provides essential and paradigm-shifting information for anyone who has suffered from depression, Alzheimer’s, or auto-immune diseases.

Expert to Lead Statewide Coordinated Response to Protect New Jersey’s Children from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES, January 17, 2020 / EINPresswire.com / -- The New Jersey Funders ACEs Collaborative, in coordination with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) and Office of the Governor, announced a national search for an expert on ACEs to lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive statewide strategy to prevent,...

Join the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative on Thursday, February 6th for this free webinar highlighting provider burnout and the role of team wellness in trauma-informed transformation!

By Charlene Belew, The Duncan Banner, January 17, 2020 “The child may not remember but the body remembers.” That was the key saying behind the “Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope” film screening Thursday, Jan. 16 when First Lady Sarah Stitt brought the Hope Rising Tour to Duncan in an effort to educate and help prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) plaguing youth in the state. “Resilience” focuses on the concept of ACEs, which is now understood to be a leading...

By Peg Streep, PsychCentral, January 8, 2020 Over the last month or two, this question has come up with increased frequency, doubtless because of the holiday season. Some readers wrote to say that, as they aged, they particularly missed being able to share memories of the past with their siblings, while others highlighted the irony of their regrets, as “Donna” did: “I keep thinking that it’d be good to talk to my brothers and sisters about the past and then I have to force myself to stop...

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 16, 2020 The other day a correspondent asked me a good question: What important issue aren’t we talking about? My answer, after some reflection, is the state of America’s children. Now, it’s not entirely fair to say that we’re ignoring the plight of our children. Elizabeth Warren, characteristically, has laid out a comprehensive, fully financed plan for universal child care. Bernie Sanders, also characteristically, says he’s for it but hasn’t...

By Patrick Kennedy, STAT, December 10, 2019 More than 70,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2017, yet insurers spent only 1% of their total health care dollars on treatment for substance use disorders — a decrease from two years earlier. This alarming statistic is just one of many in a new report released by Milliman, an independent actuarial firm. The report confirms that insurers have failed to adequately cover lifesaving care even as U.S. life expectancy declined over the past three...

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In this series, in December, we have examined together what family estrangement is, some of its causes, and how we can learn to enjoy our lives despite being separated from our family of origin. In this article, we are going to focus on some concluding thoughts on family estrangement. We are also going to focus on the resources of the CPTSD Foundation that anyone can take advantage of to help overcome the pain that comes with family estrangement. A Brief Recap of the definition of Family...

“WHAT ABOUT FAITH-based communities—where are they in your plan?” is a question we have gotten when we describe our ACEs prevention initiative in New Mexico called 100% Community. And, it’s one we are pleased to answer. We are often as ked what role religious organizations have in our work. It is estimated that there are approximately 350,000 religious congregations in the United States, representing a wide range of beliefs. With approximately 350,000,000 people in the country, that’s about...

I'm hearing my own soul here and sharing it with you. I did this 30 years ago & made a career of it. Guess I'm on a 30-year cycle.... This weekly podcast is a personalized approach to ending the intergenerational transmission of ACEs in families. The first 3 narrate the introduction to the book-in-progress on which the series is based. The remaining ones are free-form. Facing your love story is the hardest work you will ever do, and nothing else is more worth it. Thank you for being here.