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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

Faith, Hope and Love

Who Am I and Who Do I Want to Be? … In their thought-provoking research paper “Recognizing the Importance of Childhood Maltreatment as a Critical Factor in Psychiatric Diagnosis, Treatment, Research, Prevention and Education,” Martin H. Teicher, Jeoffry B. Gordon, and Charles B. Nemeroff call on us to recognize the importance of childhood abuse and the molecular… Continue reading Faith, Hope and Love

The Power of Gratitude

Grateful for the People in my Life that Accept Me and all My Frailties… Today is a hopeful day, friends! Today I climbed out from under my weighted blanket and did not crawl back in. I sat in the quiet of the early morning hours and prayed, read and did a breathing ritual my counselor… Continue reading The Power of Gratitude