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

Category: Adverse Childhood Experiences

GO BLUE

Awareness of Child Abuse… Friends, April is Child Abuse Awareness & Prevention Month. Unfortunately, many adults are squeamish at the mention of child abuse. Certainly, adult victims of Adverse Childhood Experiences are reluctant to share or revisit their awful memories. Perpetrators of child abuse keep their secrets hidden deep inside. The result is there is… Continue reading GO BLUE

Infinite Worth

Towards Evolving More Human Human Beings… Yesterday, while visiting The Williamson County Child Advocacy Center in Georgetown, Texas, I was introduced to an attachment theory modality called The Circle of Security. The Circle of Security is a visual map of attachment. The “father” of attachment theory, John Bowlby, said this about attachment: “Intimate attachments to other… Continue reading Infinite Worth

Love Wins

Timely Love Makes A Difference… In August of 2022 a tiny soul broke through the veil into the earthly realm. It was months too early, yet filled with all the needs of any soul landing that day. It was scared, cold, hungry, and in need of motherly touch. It cried hoping for a swaddle and… Continue reading Love Wins

Head Suitcase

Grappling with Monastic Withdrawal… “Whether we find our True Self depends in large part on the moments of time we are each allotted, and the moments of freedom that we each receive and choose during that time. Life is indeed “momentous,” created by accumulated moments in which the deeper “I” is slowly revealed if we… Continue reading Head Suitcase

Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire

The Path Towards Healing; You are not alone! … Welcome to my newsletter. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events, whether physical, emotional or sexual in nature that occur during childhood.  The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE’s) Questionnaire (Felitti et al, 1998), which I have included below, is a ten-item questionnaire that measures childhood trauma. The… Continue reading Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire

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