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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

Sweet Binge

Trauma, PTSD, & Eating Disorders… Last Friday, my husband Ed had the second of two knee replacement surgeries within five weeks of each other. The days leading to this latest surgery filled me with sudden onsets of post-traumatic stress disorder anxiety. You see, the first surgery ran an hour and forty-five minutes longer than the… Continue reading Sweet Binge