The CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect and household challenges and later-life health and well-being. The original ACE Study was conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997 with two waves of data collection. Once we understand how the past can spill into the present, and how a tough childhood can become a tumultuous, challenging adulthood, we have a new possibility of healing. Per Donna Jackson Nakazawa, she shares that as one interviewee in my new book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal, said when she learned about adverse childhood experiences for the first time, “Now I understand why I’ve felt all my life as if I’ve been trying to dance without hearing any music.” Suddenly, she felt the possibility that by taking steps to heal from the emotional wounds of the past she might find a new layer of healing in the present. Cutting-edge research tells us that experiencing childhood emotional trauma can play a large role in whether we develop physical disease in adulthood. In Part 1 of this series we looked at the growing scientific link between childhood adversity and adult physical disease. This research tells us that what doesn’t kill you doesn’t necessarily make you stronger; far more often, the opposite is true. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)—which includes emotional or physical neglect; verbal humiliation; growing up with a family member who is addicted to alcohol or some other substance, or who is depressed or has other mental illness; and parental abandonment, divorce, or loss — can harm developing brains, predisposing them to autoimmune disease, heart disease, cancer, depression, and a number of other chronic conditions, decades after the trauma took place. Recognizing that chronic childhood stress can play a role—along with genetics and other factors—in developing adult illnesses and relationship challenges, can be enormously freeing. If you have been wondering why you’ve been struggling a little too hard for a little too long with your emotional and physical well-being —feeling as if you’ve been swimming against some invisible current that never ceases — this “aha” can come as a welcome relief. Finally, you can begin to see the current and understand how it’s been working steadily against you all of your life.
We provide breakfast nutrition and beverages. There are many places to eat within walking distance for lunch. We also have a full-service kitchen so you can bring your lunch, warm up food etc.
To register, select www.onsitestrategies.com/registration, complete and submit. We will only assess the cost for workshop materials and food/beverages. The next step is to post your fees, cost is $40.00 and a 2.50 admin/pay pal fee, total $42.50, button is in the right hand corner, see www.onsitestrategies.com/trainings_webinars
You also receive 5 CEU's.
Training is limited to the first 10 registrants. We may sell out. We can also schedule a second training on August 8th. Registrations are on a first come basis.
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