ACE = adverse childhood experiences, AKA child trauma. Let's lower ACE scores.
- The Grief Recovery Handbook is invaluable for healing emotional pain... and loss. It works well for folks without much childhood trauma, maybe half the population. But in Part 2 of my blog on it, when I used the book thoroughly - but without knowing that I had a pile of deep childhood trauma? What an adventure... I thought all I had to do to heal from my divorce from a 27-year marriage to my college beau and the death of both parents, was to write Grief Recovery Letters to each. So I did, and I also read my letters to a kind listener with similar grief to heal. But for me, it didn't end there... See More
- “Grief Recovery Handbook” - It's an invaluable tool for healing emot...ional pain and loss. The "GRH" saved me after the death of my parents and my divorce, which all happened at once. It shows how to write Grief Recovery Letters to our dearly beloved. Then the key is: we read it to a kind listener.This simple eye contact with another human, who need only be silent and accept our grief, pain, and yes, tears, creates astonishing healing. “This is why…God put tear ducts in our eyes,” says Dr. John Townsend. “Someone should be looking at us when we are crying. Then we know we are not alone: our tears are seen and heard.” It also helped heal my childhood trauma involving "the death of a less-than-loved one" as the book says, but that was a scary road: See More
Silverman sheds her comedic persona in a performance that hits close to home.
upworthy.com|By Parker Molloy
The staff say the ACE Study questions -- to which they've added six to the original 10 -- help them better understand -- and help -- students.
ACEsTooHigh shared a link.
Earlier in 2015