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Resilience During a Pandemic
Adverse Childhood Experiences, foundations, The Basics, the language, We AdaptCostco is out of toilet paper and CVS is out of cough syrup. Your group fitness class and your favorite restaurant are closed. Your cousin keeps posting memes on instagram about some conspiracy theory and your co-worker brags on about how she hasn’t been sick in years so she’s not worried about germs. This is not a nightmare. This is real life in 2020 thanks to COVID-19, aka the coronavirus.
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The Secret to a Trauma-Informed Approach & Winning at Jenga
Adverse Childhood Experiences, foundations, The Basics, the languageMy middle child loves all things games. Board games, card games, video games…we play a LOT of games together. She even loves game shows. One of our favorite things to do together is to watch some of the classic game shows from the 1980s (thank you, Amazon Prime video).
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New school, old school, & the importance of language
Adverse Childhood ExperiencesI remember my enthusiasm when I first stumbled upon the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study. Coming from a healthcare background and frustrated by the lack of focus on upstream prevention, I remember how excited I was to learn about this “new” way of thinking about health and behavior--a way that focuses on root causes.
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Graduations, non-linear paths, & the importance of getting started
Getting Started, Graduation, It Starts With You, Movement, Resilience Champion, Training, Trauma-Informed ApproachMy oldest graduated elementary school yesterday and I will admit that I shed more than a few tears at his end-of-year ceremony as the entire school community literally “clapped out” the sixth grade. Someone told me to make sure I bring my sunglasses and I am grateful for that advice.
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Real Life Resilience Champions 2.0
Resilience ChampionThe recent appointment of Nadine Burke Harris as California’s first Surgeon General represents exciting opportunities for increased leadership and momentum around issues related to ACEs and toxic stress. But you don’t have to be a surgeon general to be a Resilience Champion.
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Ellen, Slow Drivers, & Why #WeAdapt
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Awareness, It Starts With You, Movement, We AdaptSitting on my bookshelf in my office is a framed copy of Time Magazine from April 14, 1997. On the cover is a picture of Ellen DeGeneres with the headline “Yep, I’m Gay,” When President Obama awarded Ellen the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2016, he said “It’s easy to forget now just how much courage was required for Ellen to come out on the most public of stages 20 years ago.”
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We start with the “why” in making New Years Resolutions
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience Champion, The Basics, Trauma-Informed ApproachAs one year comes to an end, the tradition of creating resolutions for ourselves in the next begins. How do you decide on what goal to work towards? This year, my 2019 resolution is going to come from looking back on 2018. I used the passion planner this year, a combined journal and organizer, so the highs and lows were easy to identify.
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Oprah, ACEs, & the Momentum of a Social Movement
Adverse Childhood Experiences, MovementYou know an issue has momentum when Oprah is talking about it! In a 60 Minutes segment aired in March 2018, Oprah talks about the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and a trauma-informed approach. She described the story as one that had “more impact on me than practically anything I’ve ever done.”
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One Connection at ACEs Conference Sparked Awareness into Action
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Awareness, It Starts With YouAnyone who attended last year’s ACEs Conference hosted by the Center for Youth Wellness knows there was an exceptional line-up of speakers. From Nadine Burke-Harris and her welcoming remarks to Bryan Stevenson’s closing keynote, there were many inspirational examples of work being done to push the ACEs movement “from awareness to action.”
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Sam Bee, #Metoo, Self-driving Cars, & the Importance of Failure
MovementI am a huge Samantha Bee fan and have been ever since she was on The Daily Show. I watch her weekly show Full Frontal religiously and am so inspired by her feminist approach to political commentary and comedy. Plus, she’s just batshit funny.
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Real life Resilience Champions
Resilience Champion, TrainingAs she describes in her TED Talk from 2015, when Nadine Burke Harris stumbled into the world of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), it made her rethink her entire approach to practicing medicine. After finishing her residency, she went to work for California Pacific Medical Center and together they opened a clinic in Bayview-Hunter’s Point in San Francisco.