Adverse Childhood Experiences and the path towards healing. You are not alone.
I share my trials, my victories, and my stories with you in hopes that if any of you were ever touched by childhood abuse or neglect, as I was, you will see yourselves in my experiences and feel strengthened to voice what you had not been able to before. I hope we can learn together why we respond to life through a particular lens, and that there are ways to climb out of this prison of pain, silence, and shame.
My name is Bess Hilpert

Introduction

The Road Towards Healing… I listen to the rain falling heavily from the sky pounding the earth and my soul. I feel my years of tears married with this cleansing of the earth. Can this life-giving water cleanse me of the pain of my childhood? Can it free my heart from the years of bondage… Continue reading Introduction