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RYSE gathering: To promote healing from trauma, institutions need to stop seeing youth as the problem
A young man told clinical therapist Marissa Snoddy recently that when she calls him a leader, she got it all wrong. “He said, ‘I just came from Juvenile Hall,’ I’m not a leader.” But, she said, “We just kept giving him love. And we said, ‘You’re courageous for showing up and being here,’” The very fact that he was there, she explained, showed he was a leader. Snoddy related the anecdote recently for 80 people attending the Trauma and Learning Series launch led by Rising Youth for Social...
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Releasing the Grip on Your Difficult Past
Three burdensome happens learned in trying to cope with adverse childhood experiences can be changed. Efforts to drop and replace these troubling habits can be extremely liberating.
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Emotional Intelligence After Adverse Childhood Experiences: Self-Awareness and Emotional Management Principles Are Key for Those with Difficult Childhoods.
Although the challenges can be greater for survivors of ACEs, developing emotional intelligence is vital for successful, satisfying living. Emotional intelligence begins with self-awareness and understanding eight key principles.
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Shame, Relationships, and Adverse Childhood Experiences: Helpful Perspectives, Healing Insights, and Resources.
Shame is common to the human condition but ACEs heighten shame in many harmful ways. Denying shame prevents us from healing it. The solution lies in bringing shame out into the light of day and making it an ally.
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Re: Shame, Relationships, and Adverse Childhood Experiences: Helpful Perspectives, Healing Insights, and Resources.
Thank you for this. In our training, we have called shame a weapon of mass destruction. A quick, easy tool used to stop behavior that does not likely lead to long-lasting change or improvement over time.
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Re: Emotional Intelligence After Adverse Childhood Experiences: Self-Awareness and Emotional Management Principles Are Key for Those with Difficult Childhoods.
Thank you for this insightful post! The principles of emotional intelligence are crucial for those navigating the aftermath of adverse childhood experiences. If you're looking to enhance your self-awareness and emotional management skills further, consider checking out iq test for resources that can support your journey toward personal growth and understanding!
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Re: Emotional Intelligence After Adverse Childhood Experiences: Self-Awareness and Emotional Management Principles Are Key for Those with Difficult Childhoods.
Understanding the fundamental emotional harms caused by child abuse and neglect is important and basic. But it is worse than that: Back in the 1990s a psychoanalyst (Leonard Shengold, MD) wrote a couple of books with great insight describing the effect of child abuse and neglect as SOUL MURDER.
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Re: Emotional Intelligence After Adverse Childhood Experiences: Self-Awareness and Emotional Management Principles Are Key for Those with Difficult Childhoods.
Wouldn't it be fantastic to see the strategies for emotional intelligence building to be integrated into our early childhood settings!