Blog

Real Life Resilience Champions 2.0

The 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.

Ellen, Slow Drivers, & Why #WeAdapt

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Awareness, It Starts With You, Movement, We Adapt

Sitting 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.”

We start with the “why” in making New Years Resolutions

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience Champion, The Basics, Trauma-Informed Approach

As 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.

Oprah, ACEs, & the Momentum of a Social Movement

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Movement

You 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.”

One Connection at ACEs Conference Sparked Awareness into Action

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Awareness, It Starts With You

Anyone 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.”

Sam Bee, #Metoo, Self-driving Cars, & the Importance of Failure

Movement

I 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.

Real life Resilience Champions

Resilience Champion, Training

As 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.

Real Life Resilience Champions 2.0

Ellen, Slow Drivers, & Why #WeAdapt

We start with the “why” in making New Years Resolutions

Oprah, ACEs, & the Momentum of a Social Movement

One Connection at ACEs Conference Sparked Awareness into Action

Sam Bee, #Metoo, Self-driving Cars, & the Importance of Failure

Real life Resilience Champions

Custom Training

Take the Surveys:

Contact Us:

Follow Us: