This was an irresistible title! I read this NYT blog post this AM, and what to share it. It’s about the efforts around the country that focus on helping people based on the ACE concept, which stands for “adverse childhood event.” In short, people with ACEs are more likely to have issues in later life, and by helping people to know and understand their ACEs people can hopefully begin healing.
The post in the Times has links to networks and resources. There is a lot of activity along these lines in CA. I’m looking for people to connect with here in GA. Here in Atlanta there is a large immigrant community–you can bet they have a lot of ACEs!
Michael, did you have an ACE as a child???
Hi Mike,
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Yes, multiple ACEs; a negative synergy where the ACEs compounded: my father’s drinking problem, his emotional abuse, his being in the military with those attitudes towards women and “parenting,” …I could go on actually. It’s a natural question, I guess. Many of the people who organized the ACEs Connection Network, which I’m barely begun exploring, have multiple ACEs. There is a questionnaire that provides a common base for discussion, but I have not looked for it yet.
Mike, if you read the Times post (in Bornstein’s social solutions blog “Fixes,” what did you think of it?
I didn’t know that. Wouldn’t have guessed that. Hadn’t even heard the term ACE before your mention of it. It means Adverse Childhood Experience,right?
Aloha all, yes we can all relate to some or other form’s of adversity however with Dr. Thane of Hawaii’s teaching’s about Translation, RHS ing, and the 60 sec exercise anyone constantly practicing same will retrain our MDB with new data and thus reveal, release, and change same. Interesting to note: I’ve been RHS ing dad about practicing military technique on his children, even to the point of (don’t think just do what I tell you to do without question, don’t think, shit, or jump until I tell you how to, when to, how much to, or how high to jump, all the while jabbing his huge, hard finger in my chest?) And expecting total collaboration from me, only in my RHS ing, dad can’t think, shit, or jump for me because I am me and he is he, and we’re both forms’ of infinite mind with different point’s of view, aren’t we? As well dad was fearful of failure, and highly suggestible, with the idea that a man, get’s an education from schooling, get’s a job, find’s a wife and has children, raise your family and that’s all life is? Hahahahahhahahhahahahahhahahhaha, and I’m very grateful my father decided to marry my mother, because he felt it was the right thing to do, after all she was with a 2 year old baby and believed no man could ever love her because she had a baby already? And my father revealed most if not enough of my unknown data thus allowing methe opportunity of releasing same and giving all the non-role playing life to change all our universal experiences, yes.
Aloha, a comment about my last comment, imagine for a moment any person asking the heart chakra to open and reveal instinctual information? However my dad, spent a fair amount of moment’s jabbing his chisel finger into the same area and adding emotional content while jabbing? Thus the first memory coming from that area was that memory, thus I had to RHS same and I’m Translating similar now as well. because the natural reaction stemming from such an insult to one’s character is to cave in the chest to absorb the physical contempt at adjusting my character, and my ).