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Parenting, Anxiety, and ACEs

Parenting with ACEs doesn’t always require intense therapy. Sometimes all we need is a friend, a conversation, someone to remind us that we will be okay, if not immediately, then eventually.

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Posted by Cissy White | Posted in Our Voices, Therapeutic Parenting, Trauma |
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Christmas Reinvented: The 12 Days of Connection

Relationships or things? Which one are you focusing upon this holiday season? To be honest, my family’s first Christmas 20 years ago was over-stimulating. An emotional roller coaster. My six adopted children unwrapped one gift after another – many from people they hardly knew. The following morning, the drama began. Fighting over each other’s toys

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Posted by D. Craig Peterson | Posted in Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting |
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Groundhog Day on Thanksgiving

The problem? Thanksgiving didn’t feel the same Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I have a relatively small family and since I wasn’t raised with religion, Thanksgiving was the main holiday where everyone all came together for a festive meal. This gave me a sense of family deep in my heart. I took it

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Posted by Hilary Jacobs Hendel | Posted in Our Voices |
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The Attachment Effect

When TarcherPerigee offered to send me Peter Lovenheim’s The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives so I could review it for the ATN blog, I had two sets of contradictory hopes and fears. One was that I’d see my child in it. The other was that I’d see myself. This

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Posted by Laura Dennis | Posted in Attachment, Book Reviews, Our Voices |
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A New Phase in Life–Part I

I have moved into a new phase in life, especially my parenting life. My last child has moved out of the house. Another child visited for the summer, so we didn’t experience a true empty nest immediately. Yet it is still a new phase–the child who moved out last was our child with an alphabet

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Posted by Lorraine Fuller | Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting, Trauma |
As a trauma and emotion-centered psychotherapist, I am relieved that children are now being screened for toxic stress. Thinking about mental health as a byproduct of a child’s environment is an important addition to current thinking on how to improve children’s wellbeing. Rushing to diagnose a child with a potentially stigmatizing label, incorrectly blaming “defective” brain chemistry, resorting to unnecessary and sometimes toxic medications, and carrying out punishments do not address the underlying cause or help a child recover their self-confidence and ability to thrive.

ACEs and Toxic Stress: How We Can Heal Children’s Brains

As a trauma and emotion-centered psychotherapist, I am relieved that children are now being screened for toxic stress. Thinking about mental health as a byproduct of a child’s environment is an important addition to current thinking on how to improve children’s wellbeing. Rushing to diagnose a child with a potentially stigmatizing label, incorrectly blaming “defective”

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Posted by Hilary Jacobs Hendel | Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Therapies, Trauma, Treatment, Uncategorized |
Paying attention was so hard. I had to be on all of the time, kind of even when sleeping.

Paying Attention: The Most Exhausting Part of Parenting with ACEs!

[Original version published at ACEs Too High, May 26, 2016] Self-care? What’s that? I used to sneak away for a hot bath as often as possible when my daughter was in the need-me-every-minute years. I’d soak long past when the water went cold and I felt guilty at times but sometimes I needed to be alone.

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Posted by Cissy White | Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting, Trauma |
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Dear Educator, Part III

Dear educator, Here we are, the last of my three letters about childhood trauma. I appreciate you taking the time to read what I have to say. Here are my last pieces of trauma-sensitive teacher advice. Kids with trauma need teachers to understand that emotional age does not always equal chronological age. From day to

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Posted by Sandi Lerman | Posted in Advocacy, Education, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Recent Posts, Trauma, Trauma Sensitive Schools |

Dear Educator, Part II

Dear educator, In my first letter, I shared some things I didn’t know about kids with trauma. In this installment, I would like to share what some of what I have learned. Kids with trauma are just trying to survive Because his brain has been changed by trauma and he feels his very life might

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Posted by Sandi Lerman | Posted in Education, Our Voices, Trauma, Trauma Sensitive Schools |
Take time to take care of you.

Creating Connections, Finding Support

I am sitting on airplane headed back home to my real life. I have been at a retreat/conference with a hundred moms of kids from hard places. We had classes and support groups…and chocolate and hot tub time. We did a fair bit of lying in the sun and a whole lot of talking. From

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Posted by Lorraine Fuller | Posted in Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting |
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