Profile Information
Location
Beacon, NY
Country
United States
Postal Code
12508
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Film maker
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Ripple Effect Films
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I'm currently working on a documentary about parenting. Over the course of my own journey as a parent and also filming the families in my documentary, I realized that most, maybe all the work of parenting is internal. I have to heal the wound of my childhood in order not to pass on the pain to my children. It's the most difficult but also the most meaningful aspect of parenting: it can be such a great opportunity to revisit our past and heal and, as we do so, we can learn to truly connect with our children and stop the cycle of abuse and neglect. I learned about ACE by chance in an article and it really helped me understand my own trajectory and also the journey of the main "character" in my documentary, Kim, who's had a very traumatic childhood. She was really struggling with connecting with her children when I met her and, three years later, her relationship with her children has really been transformed with the help of Non Violent Communication coaching and "tapping".
