Tagged With "Adverse childhood experiences"
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QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
Quest-The Truth Always Rises" is an important film about trauma, love, and resilience. I know the film maker of Quest, and I know how passionate he is to help people understand about Adverse Childhood Experiences and what can happen when one person believes in you. Santiago Rizzo tells a compelling story of his childhood that all should see. His passion is contagious, and his willingness to speak about trauma, the power of love, and the need for honesty is powerful. I suggest folks go and...
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RESILIENCE: The Secret of CPTSD Recovery (First in a Series)
When we talk about a history childhood trauma, we talk a lot about the problems — the damage, the limitation on our lives, the sadness. But in reality, a lot of us are thriving despite abuse and neglect in the past. The word for this is resilient. Overcoming the effects of Childhood PTSD is not easy, and it’s not a road I’d choose for anyone. But if that’s the hand life dealt you, it is still possible for you to blossom into a life of depth and love and purpose. Resilience is often mentioned...
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Rethinking Resilience: A Review of Change your World
Change Your World is the newest addition to the body of resources on Resilience. It has been written by Michael Ungar, PhD - one of the most informed voices in resilience research. Although the reviewer was skeptical leading up to reading the book, expecting more victim blaming, which is often the predominant theme of resilience promotion, she was pleasantly surprised. She now recommends this book to everyone interested in learning how to build a healthier humanity.
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Season's Greetings!
Hello everyone! My name is Jesus and I am a new Community Manager here ACEs Connection. It just so happens that this is one of the groups that I get to work closest with and I wanted to say HAPPY HOLIDAYS before I go on winter break until early...
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Self Help: More Than Just a Good Book
I have written before about how I was a self-help book addict. I read every book I could find, re-reading several of them and even going as far as getting them on audiobook so I could re-listen to them hundreds of times. I did this because I absolutely believed in their base principles, and, frankly, I needed a constant reminder. I would listen — and would feel good for 10 to 30 minutes afterwards. But, then life would happen; I would forget everything I learned and I would be right back to...
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Shattered By The Darkness: Powerful book by a humble man on a mission to prevent what happened to him from happening to other children.
Gregory Williams, PhD, will help change the world by taking this book into medical schools and teaching physicians and nurses about the root cause of most adult illness: childhood trauma. I just read this book in one sitting, save one hot tea refill. I could not stop reading it. Even though there were some passages that evoked anxiety, I couldn’t stop reading it, as I so wanted to learn more about this remarkable man and how he earned a PhD, had a normal family life, and earned the respect...
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Sibling Loss is Traumatic, Too
For anyone who might be interested, please feel free to check out my book about sibling loss. As a professional and as a sibling loss survivor, this work has been years in the making through research and observation. Please contact me if you would like to comment or add to the discussion about how early loss in childhood can be a trauma! https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Page-Helping-Child-Sibling/dp/1312511699/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470059014&sr=8-1&keywords=turning+the+page+helping
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Singing My Song
My dream is to create a space which feels safe, yet empowering; offering a hand to hold along the road of recovery.
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Someone like me
I am a survivor of non-recent systemic (CSA) child sexual abuse crimes committed by three perpetrators.
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Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature (dailygood.org)
Very few would question or challenge the reality of climate change and the perilous situation of the present day, yet it is often overlooked that indigenous communities have in many cases been impacted the hardest by the environmental crisis and have been on the frontline of the struggle to protect the earth, as witnessed most recently by the events at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The First Peoples of the world provide an integral vision as to how human beings can live in balance and...
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Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience by Meg Jay
From description on Amazon page for book: Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us...
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The Beautiful Darkness: A Handbook for Orphans
I became a professional reader long before I was a writer when I was living in homeless shelters, subsidized housing, and welfare hotels with my mother in New York City. Most of the middle class and affluent black folks I would come to know in the future would wince and give me a look I couldn’t read when I would tell the story that I outline in my new memoir, The Beautiful Darkness: A Handbook for Orphans . All some intolerant, ignorant bigots need is to continue to hear about the...
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The Books That Helped Me Transition from Trauma to Triumph: A Book Review Series - "Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life"
Learning to find my gifts within my chaos has changed everything. Everything.
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The Books That Helped Me Transition from Trauma to Triumph: A Book Review Series – “Getting Past Your Past”
Naturally, I would at times experience panic attack symptoms, and would almost always cry. Sometimes slow tears cascading down my cheeks. Other times full-on ugly crying, requiring a pause in the action.
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The Books That Helped Me Transition from Trauma to Triumph: A Book Review Series – “Getting Past Your Past”
Naturally, I would at times experience panic attack symptoms, and would almost always cry. Sometimes slow tears cascading down my cheeks. Other times full-on ugly crying, requiring a pause in the action.
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The Crappy Childhood Fairy on Amee Quiriconi's ONE BROKEN MOM Podcast
The other day I was the guest on Amee Quiriconi’s podcast ONE BROKEN MOM, which is focused on parenting, kids and the effects of trauma on how we manage it all. It was so fun talking with a fellow traveler, helping to get the word out about how we heal from Childhood PTSD. You can check out One Broken Mom here. You can take my online course, “ Healing Childhood PTSD” here .
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Dr. Nadine Burke Harris)
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego - a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual trauma - who galvanized her to dig deeper into the connections between toxic stress and the lifelong illnesses she was tracking among so many of her patients and their families. A survey of more than 17,000 adult patients' "adverse childhood experiences", or ACEs, like divorce, substance abuse, or neglect, had...
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The Healing Place Podcast - Dr. Kathleen Friend: The Greatness Chair
Kathleen Friend MD is a Child Psychiatrist, children’s author, musician and heart rhythm meditation teacher currently living in Tucson, Arizona. Her mission is to expand the paradigm of Child Psychiatry to embrace a holistic view of mind, body and spirit.
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The Healing Place Podcast - Dr. Kathleen Friend: The Greatness Chair
Kathleen Friend MD is a Child Psychiatrist, children’s author, musician and heart rhythm meditation teacher currently living in Tucson, Arizona. Her mission is to expand the paradigm of Child Psychiatry to embrace a holistic view of mind, body and spirit.
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The Healing Place Podcast - Dr. Kristina Brinkerhoff: Educational Consultant
Dr. Kristina Brinkerhoff, a consultant, keynote speaker, presenter and trainer, leverages over 20 years of experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent and adoptive mom of five foster children, to help educators gain an understanding of the effects Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and the importance of trauma informed practice in schools.
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The Healing Place Podcast - Janyne McConnaughey: Brave
Janyne McConnaughey, Ph.D., retired from a forty-year career in education while healing from the attachment wounding and trauma she experienced as a child. During therapy, she wrote her way to healing and now is redeeming her story by helping others to understand the lifelong effects of childhood trauma and insecure attachment.
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The Healing Place Podcast - Lorna Minewiser, PhD: Transformational Coaching
Lorna Minewiser has taught high school, college, and teacher continuing education classes. Her PhD dissertation “Eliciting Mental Models: Images of teaching and learning” has been published and she has had several articles published as well. In the spring of 2008 she conducted a research project on using EFT to reduce Test Anxiety. She was chair of the ACEP research subcommittee on EFT for Research. Recently she participated in the Veteran Stress Research Project.
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The Healing Place Podcast - Sarah Peyton: Your Resonant Self
Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal trauma. She brings together depth work and self-compassion that integrate relational neuroscience with the transformative potential of language. She teaches and lectures internationally, and is the author of the book 'Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing.
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The Healing Place Podcast - Shenandoah Chefalo: Garbage Bag Suitcase
What a delightful conversation Teri Wellbrock engaged in with the passionate and compassionate Shenandoah Chefalo, author of "Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir" and faculty member of The Center for Trauma Resilient Communities. They dove into the depths of: the healing work of Crossnore and The Center for Trauma Resilient Communities; growing up in the foster care system; trauma-brain; 3 proven resilience-building factors; compassion approaches; and why they dislike tomatoes!
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The Impact of Early Life Trauma with Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., and Judith Herman, M.D. (dvd video) 1 hour, 10 minutes
Judith Herman helps to identify shame in all of its forms and how it affects the one afflicted with it. With this complete picture of shame, mental health professionals can provide direction for their clients and show a positive life outlook. Bessel van der Kolk gets to the heart of what clients suffering from trauma experience: a loss of joy in the here and now due to being unable to focus on it and instead continue to focus on the past trauma. He then goes on to show how you can help them...
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Re: Inflammation! Who knew???
Thank you for posting Bill. I too have knee pain and arthritis and have been looking to reduce inflammation. Before I tell you what I have done, I want you to know about an interview I recently did about Childhood Disrupted with Donna. You can check out my web site at http://www.nurserona.com/ . I will post the interview there after it airs on KPFA.org on Nov. 23rd. I have known about the ACEs work for many years now, and find it essential for healing. I recently was able to get Kaiser to...
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Re: Inflammation! Who knew???
I'm glad you found Donna Nakazawa's book useful. I'll copy your note to send her. Another good book is "Scared Sick" by Karr-Morse. You can check it out on Amazon. Of course, the book I'm waiting for is the one Jane Stevens is writing on the ACE Study and the long-term effects of childhood adversity. Not only has she become impressively knowledgeable but Jane is a superbly engaging writer. There is not yet enough information on the comparative effectiveness of various treatment approaches to...
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Re: Adversity Needn’t Thwart or Define You. Here’s How to Cope. [nytimes.com]
hI I am a independent researcher and have just finished my evidence base research of alleviating workplace PTSD, depression ,anxiety/depression in 10 hours. I would like to get these results published with you, how do I do this? Regards Beverley Searle
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Re: Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models by Ford & Courtois (2013)
This is a good book. I have it and it is good. So is her book for Adults "Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse". Marylene Cloitre, Lisa Cohen, Karestan Koenen.
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Re: Self Care Via Nutrition - An Anti-Antidepressant Approach
Hi Mem, I don't know anything about this particular book or author but I'm a big fan of functional medicine and how my own functional medicine person addresses toxic childhood stress in adults. Thanks for sharing! Cissy
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Re: My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
No not chronological at all. Not until volume 3 do we learn about his childhood and then the first two about his being a father start making deeper sense. I dont think he was able to face his childhood until later in the writing process
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Re: Building a Collection of Books for Children, Teens and Adults
I'd like to suggest a book I wrote. Winner of the Children's Literary Classics gold medal 2016. The King of Average. Audiobook read by the author too. Author Gary Schwartz has crafted a brilliant read for middle-grade audiences. Replete with witty phrases and loads of powerful symbolism, The King of Average is not your average ho-hum read. This book has incredible depth with a delightfully engaging plot, threads of humor throughout, and a resounding underlying message that is truly inspired.
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Re: QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
Is this film available online? On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 1:44 PM ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
The film "Quest–The truth always rises" is not available online yet. Santiago is working really hard to get it into theaters and schools and prisons. If anyone wants to connect with him, I can help make that happen. If you google Quest, another movie shows up, so he said to always put in "Quest–The truth always rises." I would love to help him get it seen by folks who are working with ACEs and trauma informed care. Thank you for asking. Rona
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Re: QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
Please let me know when /how this film is available for online sharing. If there is a need for marketing assistance, I have a variety of resources available.
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Re: QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
Jo Lyn, thank you. The producer does need help with marketing, but he is wanting to get the right person...someone who really gets what the film is about and understands the importance of it. Happy to connect with you. I'm a friend of his, and my daughter had the teacher in the film who saved his life. Rona
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Re: QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
Sounds like a powerful film. Thanks for sharing this, Rona.
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Re: QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
If someone is interested in connecting with Santiago Rizzo, the film maker and the person the story is about, you can reach him at srizzo@gmail.com . He is looking for support to get this deeply moving film out into the world. I feel like it can raise much needed awareness to the struggles of the people we all see on the streets, and in prison, and the kids who are sent to the principal's office on a regular basis. It is a film filled with compassion and reality. Thank you for your interest...
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Re: QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
Rona, Is this film created from a book? Once the film has a platform of 10,000 people... it can most likely go anywhere and become anything... just like books. If not already in the works, I would encourage the producer to have a launch party, inviting 1000+ trauma informed coaches, therapists and educators to opt in for reduced price viewing. Education is the often the first step toward significant change, so I would also encourage creating an online educational course or masterclass...
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Re: QUEST Movie: A Benefit for the Coalition on Homelessness
Thank you so much Jo Lyn. You can see from his web site https://www.thetruthalwaysrises.com/ that the film as been around for over a year and has received some awards. The acting is really good. I don't know all of the issues he faces, but he hasn't been able to get distribution, perhaps in part because of the content, but I'm not sure. I will pass on your message to him. Thank you so much.
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Re: The Healing Place Podcast - Janyne McConnaughey: Brave
Hello Christina! So glad you found connection in Janyne's work. She is most assuredly a brave soul shining a beautiful light of hope. If you are requesting an interview on The Healing Place Podcast, then I am your girl, as I host the podcast. I would love to have you join me on air. I am scheduling guests for the month of August or after and can send you a scheduling link so you can pick a date/time that works best for you. Please reach out to me at info@teriwellbrock.com if interested.
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Re: The Ten Books That Changed My Life - Healing ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Building Resilience
So excited about this list! I have read many on the list and dont know about a few - but will definitely look them up! Thanks for sharing!
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Re: The Ten Books That Changed My Life - Healing ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Building Resilience
Thanks so much for the positive feedback! I know I have a growing list of book suggestions from podcast guests talking about favorite authors and/or books. Plus, I have an amazing collection of books written BY my guests. Looking forward to sitting on a beach in August and diving into a few of them.
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Re: The Ten Books That Changed My Life - Healing ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Building Resilience
Great list, Teri! I've read some of the books you mention and your list prompts me to read the others. Thanks again!
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Re: The Ten Books That Changed My Life - Healing ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Building Resilience
I love receiving new reading prompts and my list is growing from readers' suggestions after posting this blog. Glad I could offer some for you, as well.
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Re: Baylor College of Medicine students introduced to ACEs science
To see the ACE findings integrated into a medical school is real progress. In less than a decade, many of these medical students may start routinely integrating questions about developmental childhood experiences into their adult medical histories. More about the power of these relationships can easily be learned by searching <ACE Study> on the Internet and on YouTube.
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Re: Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience by Meg Jay
I finished reading 'Supernormal' and would highly recommend it! I really like how Ms. Jay likens us ACE survivors to 'Supernormals' and recons back to comic Superheroes. (And for an interesting aside, see this article that talks specifically about the need for superheroes to practice self care and how DC comics is addressing that for their superheroes !) Ms. Jay dedicates a chapter to each ACE, telling a story (as composites of the clients she has seen over the years) of the ACE and...
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Re: My Tears in His Bottle: prayers from the heart of a special needs’ mom
Chris: Thank you for sharing this. The title immediately got my attention. As an parent with high ACEs, I have been constantly raised up by adoptive parents who have learned and shared what they have learned about love, attachment, trauma and parenting. It has not only benefited my parenting but my own healing. Because, unlike many of us with high ACEs in childhood, who have a whole family and maybe generations and generations with high ACEs, that's not always the case with adoptive families...
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Re: The Healing Place Podcast - Janyne McConnaughey: Brave
Hello, Jayne. I am very interested in your work. In my book, Let My Legacy Be Love, A Story of Discovery and Transformation: Tracing Adult Issues to Childhood Hurts, I talk about my own story and share my "discoveries" after looking at the stories with curiosity and an openness to a different perspective. You can find out more about it on my website: www.letmylegacybelove.com . If you interview guests, I would love to be considered. On my website, there are samples of previous interviews...
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Review: Cracked Up illustrates the dynamics of post-traumatic stress disorder with pure artistry. It is a powerful voice for healing.
One of the most moving films I have seen in, well….years Cracked Up currently on Netflix, is a stunning and running commentary on what goes on in homes that we never find out about. Cracked Up tells the story of Darrell Hammond, one of Saturday Night Live’s favorite stars and the world within him that remained hidden under brilliance, talent and hurt. This courageous film illustrates, in a way that few films have so well achieved, the dynamics of post-traumatic stress disorder or how pain...