WRITING TOWARDS HEALING
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What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences?
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) aid in understanding where trauma comes from. ACEs are events taking place between ages 0 and 17 that have potential to cause trauma.
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What is Childhood Trauma?
Trauma is a response following an event that overwhelmed you; an event that you experience as life-threatening or harmful. Childhood trauma is just that, but happens in childhood.
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Love-I Don’t Understand
How can I give and receive something I do not understand? I don’t really know what love is. The ways I’ve loved in the past look a lot…
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Up Close
I get it, now. It doesn’t look the same. Abuse, addiction, mental illness…it doesn’t come with a flashy neon sign. Those actions aren’t the whole person and it’s…
